Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Severity: normal File: /etc/X11/Xsession
The file $HOME/.xsession-errors contains stdout and stderr of all programs that are started through the graphical user interface, e.g. through KDE. On my notebook this file is now more than 370 MB large. (This is mostly because many KDE programs output many warning messages.) This is bad, because this file is invisible, and it is a surprise that this file should grow so large. This is a serious disk space hog! This file should be automatically truncated when a new X session is started. Maybe one older version could be kept. I looked at the script /etc/X11/Xsession which redirects stdout and stderr. There is no hook to truncate $HOME/.xsession-errors. The user's startup script $HOME/.xsession is only called later, and truncating then is too late, i.e., it would already delete information from the current session. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t -- debconf information: xfree86-common/experimental_packages:
