[colug-432] Syslog filling up my hard drive

[Bill Baker]

I've been noticing recently that the following error has been filling up 
my /var/log/syslog until I have no more free space on my disk:

Dec 13 13:26:36 honestabe gnome-shell[2068]: Object St.Bin 
(0x5649e8c40ae0), has been already deallocated — impossible to set any 
property on it. This might be caused by the object having been destroyed 
from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() 
vfuncs.

The hex code is always different, but it keeps writing this line over 
and over, filling up my disk space at a rate of approximately 1 MB every 
2 seconds.  Since I rarely look at my syslog files, I've just been 
running the following commands:

rm -f /var/log/syslog*
systemctl restart rsyslog

The second command is necessary because df won't show that the disk 
space is there until rsyslog has been restarted.  I'm thinking I'll have 
to put those commands into a bash executable file and use cron to run it 
about once an hour or so.  Has anyone else encountered this?  Does 
anyone have any better solutions until the bug is fixed?  It is already 
a known issue: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1905519