On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > - Do you just delete it when you happen to notice it's too big? > > - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)? > (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?) > > - Do you add it to your backup system's ignore list so that a > potentially big file doesn't fill your backups? > > - What do Debian documentation and faq lists teach about maintaining > this potentially huge file? > > - Why is it normal that in Debian (and GNU/Linux) you need to manually > delete a hidden file to keep it from filling your hard disks? > > Note that I'm not necessarily looking for help but different views are > welcome. I'm mostly interested in the phenomenon that there still is > this well-known indefinitely growing file and seemingly no automatic > rotation. > > From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 > megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started grow > again.
Amateur. I found a 24 GB .xsession-errors once, on a 30 GB filesystem. 423 million lines. Most of them the same: (indicator-weather:2201): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_build_variant: assertion `DBUSMENU_IS_MENUITEM(mi)' failed Buggy crap can fill it up pretty fast.