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regarding gnome-session: Spams syslog with user log messages
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.10.1-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
In the olden days, errors inside an X session would be logged to
~/.xsession-errors. These days, it seems gnome-session logs all errors in all
user programs to the system log. This leads to two problems:
* It is very hard for the user to take a look at things that may have gone wrong
inside their current or previous session.
* It is very hard for the sysadmin to write logcheck rules to filter out the
user messages while keeping messages that may indicate problems with
gnome-session on a system level.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii gnome-session-bin 3.10.1-1
ii gnome-session-common 3.10.1-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.10.1-1
ii gnome-shell 3.10.1-1
Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii systemd 204-5
Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1
ii gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- 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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