This is still happening in 13.04. For instance rhytmbox will fill .xsession-errors with junk. Isn't it possible to limit the size of the .xsession-errors ?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000775 Title: [12.04] [ Precise] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the disk. Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The problem really is that .xsession-errors file in the /home/<user> directory is allowed to grow to an unlimited size. On my system this file got filled with error messages from indicator-weather and filled up my entire disk. manjo@lazy:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 44G 42G 353M 100% / udev 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 1016K 3.2G 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 7.8G 604K 7.8G 1% /run/shm /dev/sda1 95M 118K 95M 1% /boot/efi overflow 1.0M 92K 932K 9% /tmp manjo@lazy:~$ Of which .xsession-errors.old file accounts for 31GB -rw------- 1 manjo manjo 5.4K May 17 09:13 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 manjo manjo 31G May 16 21:03 .xsession-errors.old You might be able to solve this problem if you delete the .xsessions- errors file once it grows to say 1GB or even better create it in /tmp so that it is removed on shutdown and does not eat up my full disk space. This bug renders the system useless, I cant even file a bug with ubuntu-bug, and it is very hard to find out what is eating up the disk space since .xsession-error.old is a hidden file any normal user will have no clue what just eat up his disk. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1000775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
