Customer request to also backport the fix to 10.04 LTS.
** Also affects: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
** 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.
- 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.
+ 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.
+
+ SRU TEST CASE:
+ * Remove ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.xsession-errors.old
+ * ln -s /tmp/xe ~/.xsession-errors
+ * Reboot and log back in.
+ -> Current behavior: the ~/.xsession-errors symlink gets rotated to
~/.xsession-errors.old, and a new ~/.xsession-errors is created as a regular
file.
+ -> Desired behaviour: ~/.xsession-errors remains a symlink, and the target
file /tmp/xe is truncated for the new session.
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Title:
Allow .xsession-errors to be a symlink
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