> gnome-terminal stores the scrollback content in a temporary file, opened > at the standard location which is /tmp by default, overridable with the > standard TMPDIR environment variable
this default/standard location /tmp is certainly inadmissible, since it's an obvious welcome hackers breach. Users should be restricted to use their own quotas, even for the g-t. If there are thousands applications being regularly used on a system which behave similarly, should all of them be audited and reconfigured against such gotchas? On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home > partition? > > gnome-terminal stores the scrollback content in a temporary file, opened > at the standard location which is /tmp by default, overridable with the > standard TMPDIR environment variable. > > > May be "unlimited" should be understood as "unlimited within > reasonable limits"? > > g-t tries to do what you ask from this. If you ask this to remember > everything, it tries to store everything. What do you mean by > "reasonable limits"? E.g. 1 million lines? Feel free to set this in > gnome-terminal's preferences :) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320157 > > Title: > user space gnome-terminal overflows / file system > > Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > I have two partitions on my system: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda3 23G 12G 11G 52% / > /dev/sda6 98G 67G 27G 72% /home > > When I run a user application (on /home) which produces lots of > debugging output to the terminal, it quickly (less than a day) > overflows the root file system /. I think I figured the reason for > that: > > I selected the "unlimited" option for scrolling back in the gnome > terminal. > > The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home > partition? May be "unlimited" should be understood as "unlimited > within reasonable limits"? > > I earlier reported it as > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1319667 > > (Of course I am not going to use this in a production application. It > popped up in a stress testing, where I modeled events which happen > usually once or twice a minute at accelerated speed, of thousands of > times per second) > > 1) > $ lsb_release -rd > Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS > Release: 14.04 > > 2) > # apt-cache policy gnome-terminal > gnome-terminal: > Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 > Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 > Version table: > *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0 > 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 > Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > 3) I expected it to chop off the terminal output when it grew > unreasonably big, or at least not to overflow the / partition, staying > in /home instead. > > > 4) it overflew the / partition instead > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 > Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 > Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Fri May 16 11:18:01 2014 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-10 (94 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 > (20131016.1) > SourcePackage: gnome-terminal > UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (24 days ago) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1320157/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320157 Title: user space gnome-terminal overflows / file system Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have two partitions on my system: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 23G 12G 11G 52% / /dev/sda6 98G 67G 27G 72% /home When I run a user application (on /home) which produces lots of debugging output to the terminal, it quickly (less than a day) overflows the root file system /. I think I figured the reason for that: I selected the "unlimited" option for scrolling back in the gnome terminal. The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home partition? May be "unlimited" should be understood as "unlimited within reasonable limits"? I earlier reported it as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1319667 (Of course I am not going to use this in a production application. It popped up in a stress testing, where I modeled events which happen usually once or twice a minute at accelerated speed, of thousands of times per second) 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 2) # apt-cache policy gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) I expected it to chop off the terminal output when it grew unreasonably big, or at least not to overflow the / partition, staying in /home instead. 4) it overflew the / partition instead ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri May 16 11:18:01 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-10 (94 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (24 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1320157/+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
