Giant honking great big .x.err file in /root
Hi folks-- I've been noticing my system acting funny lately. Last night apps started closing themselves, requiring a reboot. Sometimes cntrl-al-del won't work; after closing down X the same debug information flashes past on the screen endlessly, as if the machine can't quite manage shutting down all processes. Reach for the reset button..... However the system comes back up and functions fine for a while. Tonight VMware started complaining it was out of disk space, though I have about 70Gb allocated to / and should be nowhere near out of room on the drive. So I poked around and lo & behold I found a file named .x.err that was 33.6Gb(!) Obviously I've got something seriously wrong with X... I just freed up about 13Gb in / by moving some stuff over to one of my FAT32 partitions, but I'm afraid to even try to open this huge file. Is it safe to delete it, then wait a day or so to open it when it recreates itself? Then I can post what it says and work on getting X fixed. I'm tempted to just reinstall from the ground up, but I hate to have to go through all the tweaking and configuring of my setup again. So, is it safe to delete this file? TIA.....!
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jerry bookter