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and subject line closing old gnome-session bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #810211,
regarding gnome-session: fills-up /var/log/{syslog, messages, user.log}
resulting in system blockage
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810211: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810211
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Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.14.0-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
the file /var/log/{syslog,messages,user.log} grow massively running into
several 100 MB each. I experienced my system stopping to work since gigabytes
of logs have been accumulated which left no space on the device holding
/var/log. Even in "recovery mode" it was not trivial to get my computer
running again.
I tried to configure rsyslog to discard all messages from gnome-session by
specifying ":msg, contains, "gnome-session" ~" in /etc/rsyslog.d/local.conf.
However, this didn't prevent gnome-session from writing to these log files!?!?
Now I am pretty nervous about when gnome-session delivers another deadlock to
me. I know, that there is a bug report #732832, however, I think that this bug
is much more serious than reported there.
Despite my excitement, many thanks to you for maintaining this package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-session-bin 3.14.0-2
ii gnome-session-common 3.14.0-2
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.14.2-3
ii gnome-shell 3.14.4-1~deb8u1
gnome-session recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 8.0.2
ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1+b1
ii gnome-user-guide 3.14.1-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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