On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:45:04PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a > > humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too > > big. > > > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it > > each time when started > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) > > whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > > > However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD > > gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 > > > > Any comment? > > You may want to follow up on these bugs, since the _current_ X > developers in Debian never spoke up. And I think that there is so much > crapware that puts out useless junk on stderr or stdout (the worst > offender is KDE4 software, until you find out that is possible to put an > end to this by running kdebugdialog) that the battle to make > ~/.xsession-errors useful has long been lost.
FWIW, I don't have that problem, although /etc/X11/Xsession says: exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 (despite the solution proposed in¹) echo "$PROGNAME: X session started for $LOGNAME at $(date)" and the contents of it are, unsurprisingly: "Xsession: X session started for dawud at mié may 19 18:25:05 CEST 2010" $ ll .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 dawud dawud 72 may 19 18:25 .xsession-errors This is a Lenny box, BTW. What are the perms for that file? maybe (wild guess) it lacks w? Regards. ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876 -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB
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