It's gdm/kdm/other DM open this log file and keep it open; so they'd
need to watch it and truncate it regularly.
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gdm (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Low
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Triaged
** Changed
Here's a suggestion (keeping in mind that I'm not a developer,
programmer or anything alike - I'm just an "advanced user"): What about
a cron job that would run a script a regular interval (let's say each
hour), and delete any oldest content of the .xsession-errors file that
exceeds any reasonable
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => In Progress
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manu escribió:
> Only tested in my computer, so use it at your own risk. Open a console
> and write:
>
> cd ~
> rm -f .xsession-errors
> ln -s /dev/null .xsession-errors
Thank you, manu, I will try that.
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mlaverdiere [2009-10-22 11:08 -]:
> I'm the original reporter for this bug, more than 3 years ago, on
> Dapper. I don't want to criticize anyone, but it amazes me to see that
> this bug is still causing problem on Karmic...
It's a totally different root cause, though. Back then, the problem
w
Only tested in my computer, so use it at your own risk. Open a console
and write:
cd ~
rm -f .xsession-errors
ln -s /dev/null .xsession-errors
Now .xsession-errors will always be zero size. If you ever need to check
the errors or revert this, you do 'rm -f .xsession-errors" and it will
be created
I'm the original reporter for this bug, more than 3 years ago, on
Dapper. I don't want to criticize anyone, but it amazes me to see that
this bug is still causing problem on Karmic...
Here's what I think:
It's OK to point out that Babara's problem was caused by a buggy
Chromium installation. B
Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 16:46 -]:
> It seems that I get a lot of errors related to chromium-browser:
Thanks for testing. So this should be fixed in chromium then.
Martin
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Martin Pitt escribió:
> Can you please copy it aside (copy it to ~/xsession-errors.old),
> log out, back in, and check how big ~/.xsession-errors is? Did it get
> appended on or emptied?
>
Looks like the file has been emptied: it was 90 KiB (in 4 hours) and the
new one is 9,6 KiB. The content
Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 12:52 -]:
> Yes, it is GNOME. Why not?
Because with GNOME ~/.xsession-errors is cleaned on every session
startup. So either that's broken for you for some reason, or you just
have run your session for a very long time, or there is some
particular process which spews
Yes, it is GNOME. Why not?
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Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 11:40 -]:
> I don't think this is fixed at all: for me, .xsession-errors file
> has turned into a 279GB monster! Karmic Koala, AMD64
Which desktop environment are you using? It's obviously not GNOME?
Martin
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I don't think this is fixed at all: for me, .xsession-errors file has turned
into a 279GB monster!
Karmic Koala, AMD64
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