On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:08 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> All,
>
> TDE crash on start:
>
>  The big issue is that TDE crashes on start without any apparent error or
> anything written to .xsession-errors. After selecting the username from the
> chooser list in tdm and entering the password, the following occurs:
>
> (1) login appears to proceed
> (2) normal black background and default X-cursor appears
> (3) 3-5 additional seconds of load takes place, then
> (4) tde crashes and tdm login re-appears.
>
>  So I look around to find out if there are any clues. None apparent.
> /var/tmp/kdecache-root was created, but nothing in it, then I check disk space
> left. WTF?? Something has taken 7.8G of room on my / partition and I have no
> room left on my drive?? Searching...
>
> /var/log/tdm.log   5876092928   - WHAT? 5.8G log file??
>
>  I could not preserve the file because I had no way to compress it and git it
> out of my virtual machine. I'll restart and try and capture a smaller log. What
> in the heck could be causing tdm.log to explode like this? I know it would help
> to see what was inside, but that will have to wait until I can get shared
> folders setup and get another log out of the VM....
>
>  Anybody else ever experience this?

You could at least look at its 'tail'. Looks like someone flooded with
error message in endless loop.