Re: [orca-list] Orca logs maxing out /tmp

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Upstream Orca itself doesn't write anything to /tmp.

Orca does have logging functionality to aid with debugging. But by
default, the output file is None. So unless you or your distro changed
something to redirect logging to /tmp, I don't think that's what you're
seeing.

Are the contents of the files human-readable? If so, what sorts of
things are being written in them?

--joanie

On Sat, 2020-09-05 at 16:29 +0000, Mewtamer via orca-list wrote:
> Okay, I've been having this issue for several releases of Orca now,
> and it's more annoying than outright harmful.
>
> Best I can tell, Orca stores some kind of log files in /tmp and these
> log files seem to continuously grow until /tmp is at 2.0G according
> to
> du.
>
> When this happens, a few issues occur in unrelated applications:
>
> Loading a YouTube video will crash the active tab in Firefox.
> Aptitude can't perform a a package list update or install, upgrade,
> or
> remove any packages.
> I can't long-in on ttys that aren't already at the command line.
>
> I can't launch X if it isn't already running.
> Probably other things I can't recall at the moment or which happen
> less frequently.
>
> doing
>
> sudo rm /tmp/orca.*
>
> Tends to fix the problem(I sometimes have to restart Firefox to fix
> the tab crashes), but the log files just start growing again.
>
> Is there anyway to limit how big these files get or to make them
> self-destruct before they hit the 2 GB limit? Best I can tell, it's
> only when /tmp runs out of free space that there's a problem, and the
> orca files are the only thing I ever find in /tmp that that's bigger
> than a dozen or so kilobytes.
>
> If it matters, my running system is highly customized from a hard
> drive install of Knoppix, with the majority of my installed
> packages(including my copy of Orca) sourced from Debian Testing with
> only a handful of packages either exclusive to Knoppix or which are
> running a custom build that ships with Knoppix.
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