Package: sddm Version: 0.19.0-2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: shadowm2...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, sddm in Debian is currently unable to honour the SessionLogFile= option in the [X11] section of /etc/sddm.conf. Even when the option is not present, the default is to use ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log to write stdout/stderr for user-launched applications, but in practice the messages end up in ~/.xsession-errors -- which I might add is allowed to grow indefinitely, as I found the file for my user account to be approximately 28.4 GB in size after almost 4 years. >From a quick glance at the startup scripts after noticing that this issue does not occur in other distributions (e.g. openSUSE), I found out that /etc/X11/Xsession (which I assume gets sourced by sddm some way or another during login) redirects both file descriptors to ~/.xsession-errors in append mode without any mechanism within the script or elsewhere for changing the file path or respecting sddm's options. I believe that this script does not count as a configuration file so any local changes would be overwritten by apt any time its parent package (x11-common) gets upgraded. I can see that whether I set [X11] SessionLogFile= to a non-default value or leave it unspecified, the file that *should* be used will be created but ends up abandoned with a size of 0 bytes while messages get written to ~/.xsession- errors instead. The reason I'm filing this bug against sddm instead of x11-common is that I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug in the sddm packaging (e.g. a Debian- specific factor about x11-common that isn't taken into account in sddm). Since I haven't used a different display manager in years myself I also ignore if other display managers suffer from this same bug or deal with this situation in a different fashion. Feel free to reassign to any other package as needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.15-hanacore-162 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages sddm depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74 ii libc6 2.31-5 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-1 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libqt5core5a 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt5gui5 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt5network5 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt5qml5 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libqt5quick5 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-1 ii libsystemd0 247.1-3 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.14-2 ii libxcb1 1.14-2 ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.15.2+dfsg-2 ii x11-common 1:7.7+21 ii xauth 1:1.0.10-1 ii xserver-xephyr [xserver] 2:1.20.10-1 ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+21 ii xvfb [xserver] 2:1.20.10-1 Versions of packages sddm recommends: ii haveged 1.9.13-1 ii libpam-systemd 247.1-3 ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.20.4-3 ii sddm-theme-debian-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.19.5-5+b1 Versions of packages sddm suggests: ii libpam-kwallet5 5.20.4-1 pn qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin <none> -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm
