[CLUE-Tech] bug in SETI@home 3.08 for Linux

[Don Collier]

Thanks for this post.  I had just downloaded the new client and was
getting ready to start it.  I guess I will wait a while now.
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Don Collier
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George Veskov said:
> Perhaps someone else has noticed this, but because I haven't seen any
> posts about it I'll summarize the issue quickly.
>
> SETI at home recently released a new version of the SETI at home client (3.08)
> for all OS'es, including windoze and linux. The win32 version works fine,
> but the linux one has a huge bug which effectively makes it unusable. Upon
> running the client, a file will be created in the current user's home
> directory under the name .xsession-errors. (In my case, this was
> /home/george/.xsession-errors). As long as SETI at home is left running, this
> file will grow at a rate of 200-300 MB/sec, and it will use up all
> available disk space in a matter of minutes. I am not quite sure what
> exactly is causing the behavior, but the source is definitely SETI at home.
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?
>
> P.S. The file does not show up under normal ls listing or from within
> Konqueror by default. Use 'ls -a' from the command line to see if the file
> is present. Deleting this file immediately frees up the used disk space,
> although I found out that a reboot is necessary for Linux to actually
> begin to utilize that space.
>
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