Am 30.10.2015 um 18:56 schrieb Jens Seidel: > Package: rsyslog > Version: 8.4.2-1+deb8u1 > Severity: grave > > Hi, > > some time ago I was affected by a really nasty bug. I tried to start a new > X session to login as a new user but did not remember how to do so (from > an XFCE session). So I ended up calling X as root and this was a big problem: > > This started a Gnome session which I stopped immediately (I wanted a new > X login session). Nevertheless I was not able to work on my system > because I got very fast out of free disk space. The following files > got bigger and bigger containing many GB after a few minutes: > > /var/log/messages > /var/log/syslog > /var/log/user.log > > They were filled with messages like: ("Keine Berechtigung.": German for "no > permission"). > > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of > pending replies per connection has been reached > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of > pending replies per connection has been reached > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): > dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine > Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. > > I do not remember that I ever changed the config files of rsyslog. Just in > case it is dconf's fault, I used version 0.22.0-1.
So rsyslog logs your (user) messages. I fail to see how this is a bug in rsyslog, even more a grave one?
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