Wow, this is an old bug that seemingly got forgotten about!
I've just added locally a change to at least rotate the
.xsession-errors file at startup, to stop me wasting gigabytes of disk
on errors that I don't care about long-term:
diff --git a/X11/Xsession b/X11/Xsession
index 6ad7d6e..8302900 1
> This problem just should be fixed. A running Debian system
> just kills itself by filling the hard disk with
> .xsession-errors files. . .
Yes, yes, please fix it.
I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a
humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way wa
Hi!
This problem just should be fixed. A running Debian system just
kills itself by filling the hard disk with .xsession-errors
files. Unless, of course, the administrator or all users
know how to prevent it.
I fixed it by editing my /etc/X11/Xsession:
Changed this:
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
to be
severity 287876 wishlist
retitle 287876 xfree86-common: Xsession does nothing to prevent
$HOME/.xsession-errors from growing very large
merge 276545 287876
thanks
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is this a duplicate of bug #276545?
Yes.
> I am wonde
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