700kb free hard drive space!?!?!?

well, i had an issue last night. went to copy something, and didn't have enough har drive space. forced me to clean up and organize myself though. but either way, wasn't my problem. my home drive, was 346gb, and last i checked, i had 90+ free, but not last night. i tried to add up all the folders i had that should take space to 204gb
i had to run my file browser (konqueror) as admin, or root, whatever. and checked the space on the wifes user account, and it was taking up all the space, but when i went in and checked her personal files, there was only 5
anyway, ended up, being a xinit something error file, that somehow bloated itself. so i got rid of it, and everything normal.
im just looking for some insight as to what could have caused that?

it seems it is happening again, theres an .xsession-errors-:2 thats currently 400~mb
here's where it seems to go bad
12117] 20:46:03: Setting root URL to http://content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net/atoms/49/c8/49c8dbe2a74a23bcb7d9bb81ad1d54f3.swf?clickTag=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Ebannerconnect%2Enet%2Fclick%2CzAIAAKffAgBVpggAxRgDAAAACAAAABAAAwABFQIAAQNWAAMAjboEALe%2DBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIUQb0cAAAAA%2C%2Chttp%253A%252F%252Fads%2Eak%2Efacebook%2Ecom%252Fads%252Fcreative%252Fbannerconnectinternational%252F120x600%5Fbc%252520tag%2Ehtml%2C
12117] 20:46:03: Setting base URL to http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/creative/BannerConnectInternational/120x600_BC%20Tag.html
12117] 20:46:03: No rendering flags specified, using rcfile
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::init(int, char***) enter
12117] 20:46:03: OpenGL extension version - 1.3
12117] 20:46:03: Got double-buffered visual.
12117] 20:46:03: Created XEmbedded window
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::createMenu() enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::setupEvents() enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: static gboolean gnash::GtkGui::realize_event(GtkWidget*, GdkEvent*, void*) enter
12117] 20:46:03: Base url set to: http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/creative/BannerConnectInternational/120x600_BC%20Tag.html
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::createWindow(int, int) enter
12117] 20:46:03: DEBUG: virtual bool gnash::GtkGui::run() enter
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x%02x 0x%02x
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Unsupported marker type 0x%02x
Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOI markers
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Invalid JPEG file structure: two SOF markers
12117] 20:46:05: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Didn't expect more than one scan
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
12117] 20:46:08: MALFORMED SWF: Internal jpeg error: Improper call to JPEG library in state %d
and the rest of it almost is the malformed swf etc etc. so wtf is that?
the other problem i've been having, is my system seems to freeze sometimes, usually after the wifes been on it. when i'm on it, i don't have problems, i figured with little access to anything, and not being able to install activex controls, since its linux, it should be pretty well dummy proofed from her.
maybe thats why, she's doing something thats building up those log files. wonder if i could disable xsession logging under her account al together, or bad idea?
Last edited by ssl6 (2008-01-12 03:14:16)

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