Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1294289
Cura slowly fills your harddrive up with log file
Last modified: 2016-12-20 12:23:41 EST
Description of problem: Cura slowly builds up the .xsessions-errors.old with something like '[_]' characters (brackets are right, could be a different character in the middle (I am not on the affected computer). Over a week of 3D printing I filled up a 60GB harddrive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 15.02 How reproducible: I have now filled 2 hard drives before I located the problem in the .xsession-errors.old file and deleted it. Steps to Reproduce: 1. run cura to control 3D printing operations 2.With each run that file gets larger. 3.Hard drive starts reporting it is full and that cura can no longer write log files. Actual results: hard drive becomes unusable. Expected results: .xsession-errors.old needs to have stable size. Additional info: Problem can be relieved by deleting .xsession-errors.old.
Do you need to print or just run cura?
It seems to add to the .xsessions-errors.old file each time it prints. In addition I am beginning to see an instability in the program. Since the last kernel upgrade (~a week or so ago), it seems to screw up the print somewhere in the middle. It will just stop printing, or will just start printing spagetti sometime during the print out. It has done that on its last 5 print outs. I am not sure if it is related to the new kernel or not, but I had not seen that behavior before. I am currently running memory checks on the computer to see if the hardware has a problem. If I find one I will post.
I am looking at the latest .xsession-errors.old and am seeing that it is still doing it. it is adding [''] (exact repeat hundreds of times). john
Here is a bit more information. I printed a ruler with 9 lines and 9 numbers tonight. (9 cm ruler to calibrate printe). The lines were present in the finished product but the numbers were not so I don't think it completed the ruler. I ran cura from the command line. The following was printed in the terminal load preferences from /home/jduchek/.cura/15.02.1/preferences.ini Listening for engine communications on 49674 ['changeZ', '15'] ['changeZ', '0'] ['changeZ', '0'] ['changeZ', '0'] ['changeZ', '0'] ['changeZ', '1'] ['changeZ', '1'] ['changeZ', '1'] ['changeZ', '6'] The changeZ lines came out just before it stopped printing and moved the extruder to the corner.
I'm quite unable to look into this for at least a week. In the meantime, you can try if cura-lulzbot works and if so, use that.
I will try that. Thanks, I will check and see if it is doing the same while I am at it. Now that I know where the problem is I can always delete the log when it gets too big. John
I tried cura-lulzbot. It sort of works. However, it takes an stl that slic3r handles well, and gives a bunch of script errors. Things like 'last line has no checksum'. Several times I have had it print an object and then crash when it tries to print the same file a second time. I am also finding cura crashing. In both cases it executes maybe half the object and then stops and dumps plastic in the same spot for a while and never starts again. The system has frozen a couple times during cura and cura-lulzbot runs. It is not freezing when the same file is printer by pronterface/slic3r. The computer has not frozen at any time when one of the curas is running. I know that is not any specific help. I will keep trying to add detail. John
I misspoke The computer has not frozen at any time other than when one of the curas is running. John
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