On 10/09/2014, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 01:24:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Just out of interest, "top" shows the system as having been up for 21 >> days, so, the xsession-errors file grew to 743MB, in 21 days. I saw, >> at the top of that file, before I deleted it, reference to 21 August, >> so, the file apparently, grows quite fast. > > This machine has been up for about the same length of time. > > brian@desktop:~$ ls -l .xsession-errors > -rw------- 1 brian brian 165780 Aug 24 08:39 .xsession-errors > > Has it dawned on you that an investigation of the file's contents > might be indicated? > >
The file has (kind of) gone, now (it is no longer accessible, but, appears to still exist, in the ether of the unknown; still taking up disc space, whilst, in theory, non-existent), but, when I did briefly examine the contents, hundreds of lines referring to QPaint problems, were shown. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8pbpc_ssc5uy1whuyrgnaws+kpqy8noc0xpvotqbin...@mail.gmail.com