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My syslog file located at /var/log was about 80GB today so I empty it and in a couple of hours it has grown to 30GB already, this is what the log file keeps on writing:

Sep 18 19:35:26 media-OptiPlex-3050 gnome-session[1243]: extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
Sep 18 19:35:26 media-OptiPlex-3050 gnome-session[1243]: •••••••••extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
Sep 18 19:35:26 media-OptiPlex-3050 gnome-session[1243]: •••••••••extern "Python": function Cryptography_rand_status() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.
Sep 18 19:35:26 media-OptiPlex-3050 gnome-session[1243]: extern •••••••••"Python": function Cryptography_rand_bytes() called, but @ffi.def_extern() was not called in the current subinterpreter.  Returning 0.•••••••••
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Tico
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Your error is a mismatch between python cryptography and the infamous bug that was in openSSL. There is a workaround by downloading and force-updating both to a version that match both. 

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/python-openssl_16.2.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-openssl_16.2.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb

This bug has been solved in newer releases.

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