Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.4-1 Severity: grave Justification: Discards error output rather than logging as requested
When an X session has been running for a while, I get the message "...Too much output, ignoring rest..." and then all logging to my ~/.xsession-errors stops. I googled for this message, and the only relevant hit I got <http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/slave.c?rev=1.276> suggests that GDM is responsible for this message. <http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gdm2/daemon/gdm.h?rev=1.176> defines MAX_XSESSION_ERROR_BYTES to be 80*2500 -- I guess that's supposed to be 2500 lines at full width. (My current .xsession-errors which just got this message is actually 4422 lines, for comparison, but about half of those are empty, because many programs seem to include a spurious newline with each message.) This limitation seems a bit ill-conceived. I can imagine that it might be useful to limit the output produced by a runaway process in rapid succession, but it should still be possible to get log messages from a process which runs for as long as the computer is up; eventually, if there are no crashes or power failures, it will produce enough log messages to exceed whatever limit you come up with. Still, as a workaround, perhaps the Debian package could make the limit really large. In the meantime, feel free to tag this as "upstream" and forwarding it to the Gnome folks. Ultimately, the limit should probably be configurable at startup time, with an option to disable it (perhaps by setting the limit to 0 in the configuration), and documented. Thanks in advance for your attention to this, /* era */ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.10 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.23 Package maintenance system for Deb ii gksu 1.2.2-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.6.2-6 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.6.1-6 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.1-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1cvs-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an ii libgsf-1 1.10.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.16-2 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-6 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library ii metacity [x-window-m 1:2.8.1-4 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20040617-7 A window manager for X11 ii twm [x-window-manage 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Tab window manager ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 miscellaneous X clients ii xfce [x-window-manag 3.8.18-2 The Cholesterol Free Desktop Envir ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m ii xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
