Hi. On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 12:10:26PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > How do I prevent/stop Gnome trivial errors from flooding syslog?
By configuring your journald and syslog correctly. For instance, this little snippet: $ cat /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/lessspam.conf [Journal] MaxLevelSyslog=info decreases the amount of journald entries by an order of magnitude. This one: $ cat /etc/rsyslog.d/systemd-spam.conf :syslogtag, startswith, "gnome-" stop sends all GNOME-related syslog entries to where they belong, i.e. /dev/null. > Simply resizing gnome-terminal yields dozens (hundreds?) of log entries like: > > gnome-terminal-[1849]: Allocating size to GtkScrollbar 0x5616bb780720 > without > calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the > size to allocate? Of course, fixing the offending program would be right way of doing this, but it's a GNOME program we're talking about. And GNOME programs are known for this kind of spam. Reco
