Wow, this is an old bug that seemingly got forgotten about! I've just added locally a change to at least rotate the .xsession-errors file at startup, to stop me wasting gigabytes of disk on errors that I don't care about long-term:
diff --git a/X11/Xsession b/X11/Xsession index 6ad7d6e..8302900 100755 --- a/X11/Xsession +++ b/X11/Xsession @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors +if [ -f "$ERRFILE" ] && [ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then + mv -f "$ERRFILE" "$ERRFILE".old +fi + # attempt to create an error file; abort if we cannot if (umask 077 && touch "$ERRFILE") 2> /dev/null && [ -w "$ERRFILE" ] && [ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
