Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-10-02 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest? > > Perhaps your '>>' ought to be '>'? > > Whoops, yes indeed. I had some debugging prints like "starting session > on $(date)" there and forgot >>. >

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Julien Cristau writes: > That seems to duplicate the last 512kB rather than remove the rest? > Perhaps your '>>' ought to be '>'? Whoops, yes indeed. I had some debugging prints like "starting session on $(date)" there and forgot >>. Fixed version is attached. >From d1df83712f29dc7ffe2203f38efd

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 14:28:37 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Tim Connors writes: > > this (and I *really* hate it when gnome by default limits output and just > > Can you locate where this limit is in gnome? Is it a per-app limit or > global to all gnome applications? > It used to be i

Processed: Re: Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > package x11-common Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'x11-common' Limit currently set to 'package':'x11-common' > tag 596634 patch Bug #596634 [x11-common] x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
package x11-common tag 596634 patch thanks Tim Connors writes: > this (and I *really* hate it when gnome by default limits output and just Can you locate where this limit is in gnome? Is it a per-app limit or global to all gnome applications? >> How about a compromise? Could we truncate all but

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-13 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > [I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...] > > Tim Connors writes: > > before the user gets to review them, they can always log into the > > console and review the errors before they restart X. > > Always might be too strong wor

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[I'm not a maintainer, just happened be following X bugs...] Tim Connors writes: > before the user gets to review them, they can always log into the > console and review the errors before they restart X. Always might be too strong word. On my PDA I don't have a physical keyboard, the only way to

Bug#596634: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession always appends to .xsession-errors

2010-09-12 Thread Tim Connors
Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.5+6 Severity: important Is there any reason why /etc/X11/Xsession appends to the logfile instead of creating it: exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 If the argument is that you want to be able to see what errors happened in the last session, so you don't want to clear them ou