[telepathy] [Bug 331595] New: ~/.cache/upstart/dbus.log filled with 6KConfigIni on opening chat window

[Chemtox]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331595

            Bug ID: 331595
           Summary: ~/.cache/upstart/dbus.log filled with 6KConfigIni on
                    opening chat window
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: telepathy
           Version: 0.6.3
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kde-telepathy-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: chemtox at interneta.org

I noticed Telepathy was quite slow to open the chat window for over a month,
but only today I found the cause, when trying to figure out why my hard drive
was full.

Turns out Telepathy is filling ~/.cache/upstart/dbus.log with errors,
apparently trying to read /initrd.img as a config file, like this:

Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.TextUi'
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
Application may misbehave.
"KConfigIni: In file /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-15-generic, line 1: " Invalid
entry (missing ']') 
[error repeated once for every byte in initrd...]
Successfully activated service
'org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.TLSHandler'

This is happening to me in a vanilla Ubuntu 13.10.  Last log file is over 1
GiB, with 10461888 KConfigIni errors.  Fun!

I can see the error on all the dbus.log.* at ~/.cache/upstart, going back to
January

Tried "sudo touch /a" to see if Telepathy would try to read an empty file
instead, but didn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure the chat window is closed.
2. Open chat window by double clicking a contact or an incoming message
notification.

Actual Results:  
I have to wait 15 seconds while Telepathy "processes" initrd and dumps some 60
MiB of errors.

Expected Results:  
Should not try to read random binary files as configuration.

Marking critical as filling the hard drive can cause data loss.

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