[Bug 1240848] Re: ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and mediascanner

[psylem]

Why not just disable this logging behaviour by default? No one knows
about ~/.cache/upstart until it fills their disk and breaks their system
(if they are savvy enough to find the problem log file).

The handful of power users that might occasionally need this logging
behaviour can work out how to switch it on. In the mean time, not all of
the users being impacted when it fills the disk will be able to work out
what needs to be done about it.

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Title:
  ~/.cache/upstart takes up around 70GB of space due to unity and
  mediascanner

Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in mediascanner package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I just noticed that ~/.cache/upstart/ folder on my computer is taking
  up 69GB of space. Upon further investigation, I found out that
  mediascanner.log and unity-panel-service.log take 12GB and 54GB of
  space respectively.

  I'm not entirely sure if this is related to upstart as I had removed
  logrotate package because of a conflict.

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