guysoft/FullPageOS

Fix for chromium BrowserMetrics filling filesystem: '/dev/mmcblk0p2' Disk Full, '/home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics' fills entire disk, chromium will not load, FullPageOS logo shows. Also fix for Also add fix for changing hostname (clear chromium/Singleton*)

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richardhuishwork commented

What were you doing?

Chromium BrowserMetrics is filling filesystem
Also add fix for changing hostname (clear chromium/Singleton*)

After a while the SD card becomes full.
running sudo ncdu -x at the drive root shows that the disk /dev/mmcblk0p2 is 100% full.
This is due to /home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics filling the entire disk

Chromium will not load, FullPageOS logo shows, cursor works, VNC works.

Suggested fix...

On the script that loads FullPageOS add the following commands to run:

rm -R /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache
rm -R /home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics/*.*
rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

Ref: andrewmcdan/mj-launcher@bbc55c8

What did you expect to happen?

N/A

What happened instead?

N/A

Was there an error message displayed? What did it say?

None

Version of FullPageOS?

0.14.0

Screenshot(s) showing the problem:

N/A

If you are building FullPageOS - provide a build.log that is created for the build

richardhuishwork commented

I think this would fix:
#508

richardhuishwork commented

I tested it and it is working if added to run_onepageos

#!/bin/bash

USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

feh --bg-center /opt/custompios/background.png




rm -R /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache
rm -R /home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics/*.*
rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*




while true
do
    if [[ $(curl -sL -b cookiefile -w "%{http_code}\\n" -H "user-agent: ${USER_AGENT}" "$(/opt/custompios/scripts/get_url)" -o /dev/null) =~ ^([23][0-9]{2,2}|401)$ ]] || grep -q disabled "/boot/firmware/check_for_httpd" ; then
      xdotool mousemove 9000 9000
      /opt/custompios/scripts/start_chromium_browser
    fi
    sleep 1
done
guysoft commented

It does not seem to me that this is a solution, more like a workaround:

rm -R /home/pi/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache
rm -R /home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics/*.*
rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

What exactly is filling it up? What is in that folder?
What size sd card? perhaps its too small?

richardhuishwork commented

Hello, the SD card is 32GB and filled it within a few weeks in the /home/pi/.config/chromium/BrowserMetrics/ folder.

A full apt update & apt upgrade has been performed.

The folder fills with .PMA files E.G BrowserMetrics-60B60603-3D7326.pma

The Pi3B is running FullPageOS 2024-10-28
2024-10-28_2024-10-22-fullpageos-bookworm-armhf-lite-0.14.0.zip 1.4GB

Before removing BrowserMetrics:
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After removing BrowserMetrics:
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guysoft commented

I am not sure how to disable it from the build, but it looks like you can disable it according to this:
https://askubuntu.com/a/1343947/116460

Disable/enable:

    Open Chrome/Chromium, More, Settings.
    Under "You and Google" select "Sync and Google services".
    Turn on or off "Help improve Chrome's features and performance"
richardhuishwork commented

I'm doing everything from SSH/VNC, any idea how to get to the settings page?

Update: Ah "Ctrl + T" escapes the tab.

richardhuishwork commented

Settings as default, seem to already be off or missing.
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