Disk full phenomena

[Yuri Chornoivan]

субота, 13 березня 2021 р. 00:10:47 EET Ray Olsen написано:
> Hi Kde developers
> 
> I have started having a weird experience using Kpat and running the
> Forty & Eight game.  There is an existing Linux problem (at least ten
> years old) that clouds the issue, so I am looking for some information.
> 
> I am using a desktop with:
>      AsRock H470M-ITX/ac
>      I3-10100 Intel processor
>      8MB memory
>      NVME HDD 256GB (126GB partition)
>      Ubuntu Mate 20.04.2 LTS
>      KDE game Package
> 
> After playing several hands of  Forty & Eight I got a message that I was
> low on HDD space.  So I looked in my Home directory,  and found two
> hidden files, each one having multiple gigabytes of data:
> 
>      .xsession-errors
>      .xsession-errors.old
> 
> I read some linux stuff and learned that the linux folks have allowed
> applications folks to set up an error text file and then redirect that
> data to a system file that houses error messages.  I believe what they
> told me is that other applications can also redirct stuff to the same
> hidden file in my home directory.  I see that in my /$HOME/etc/x11
> directory there is a script which accomplishes this redirection
> (Xsession), I think at login.  In the same script it will trim the file
> to 500000 to prevent it from getting too big. However, I think this trim
> only happens at login. YIKES!!!
> 
> Conceptually, there should not be a lot of errors and this file
> shouldn't get very big.  So I looked at the data and found many, many
> lines of text that look like something I would print  if I were
> debugging the program.  But I would not leave that posting in for a
> released version of the game,  and yet, there it is.
> 
> In the process of looking for help on the Internet, I found many
> reported problems of people getting full disk warnings, going as far
> back as 2009.  It appears the linux keepers have not found a suitable
> way to exorcise this dilemma. I bring this up because my kpat problem is
> embedded with the root problem of filling the HDD. Sometimes a two step
> problem confuses the fixing of each of the steps.
> 
> I am hoping someone will look at the symptoms I have sent, and convince
> the author of Forty and Eight that removing the output that is filling
> the error log would be a good thing.
> 
> Thank you for listening
> 
> Ray Olsen
> risingstar at imaxmail.net
> nestled in the beautiful mountains of northern Idaho

Hi,

Can you try

export QT_LOGGING_RULES="default.debug=false"

?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Best regards,
Yuri