Hidden process consumed 100% of disk

[Ken Stadtman]

I had a similar occurrence on Fedora 40 (kde interface) with Digikam 
8.4. There was no connection issue but received same KDE warning that 
home partition free space was approaching zero. Being fairly new to 
Linux, I was unsure how to troubleshoot. Eventually tried to reboot and 
Fedora would not boot due to lack of free space. Booted into 
Mint(Cinnamon)  and removed Fedora partition. Have stayed with Mint for 
the time being and, so far, DK 8.4 is working fine. Not sure if Digikam 
or OS caused the error.

Ken Stadtman


On 8/6/24 16:30, Jim Cunning wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday I had an instance of Digikam (8.2.0) on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS 
> (Kubuntu) crash due to lost NFS connection to the albums, or lost 
> database connection, I don't remember which it was.  I got a pop-up 
> notification that it had crashed, with an option to leave closed or 
> restart.  I left it closed.
>
> That evening I saw a KDE warning that my /home partition was at 100%.  
> I found the .xsession-errors file in my home directory had grown to 
> 414GB.  I also discovered a running process of Digikam, using 100% of 
> a single CPU core.  I killed the process, and removed the 
> .xsession-errors file, but the disk space was not reclaimed, possibly 
> due to a stale open file handle somewhere.  I had to reboot to recover 
> the disk space.
>
> I was unable to capture the error messages in the .xsession-errors 
> file, but I recall that it was completely filled with something 
> related to "invalid socket" and the word "exiting".  My recollection 
> may not be accurate to be useful. I realize I'm running an older 
> version of Digikam, but wanted to bring up the situation in case it 
> could also happen with 8.4.
>
> Thanks for a great photo management application.
>
> Jim Cunning
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