Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm
Bug 60448 discusses the problem about ~/.xsession-errors growing unbearably large when there are buggy programs spamming it. One remedy is to allow ~/.xsession-errors to be a symlink to e. g. /dev/null or a local file, so that you can at least avoid network contention if ~ is on NFS. scm sent a first patch for this (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70203386 /gdm-session-worker.c.diff). This should be cleaned up to use g_file_test() and reported upstream. ** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) Status: In Progress ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gdm Bug 60448 discusses the problem about ~/.xsession-errors growing unbearably large when there are buggy programs spamming it. One remedy is to allow ~/.xsession-errors to be a symlink to e. g. /dev/null or a local file, so that you can at least avoid network contention if ~ is on NFS. - spm sent a first patch for this (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70203386 + scm sent a first patch for this (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70203386 /gdm-session-worker.c.diff). This should be cleaned up to use g_file_test() and reported upstream. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771661 Title: Allow .xsession-errors to be a symlink -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
