Why was this marked invalid? According to comment #45, it's the desktop
manager's responsibility to truncate .xsession-errors. If so, it's a kdm
bug, since I still see the same problem under KDE.
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** Summary changed:
- .xsession_errors
I have this bug with the freeRDP issue:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3315749&group_id=278330&atid=1181674
Patched /etc/X11/Xsession to log errors to /dev/null.
** Bug watch added: SourceForge.net Tracker #3315749
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I'm a bit late, but anyway, happy 5th birthday bug report!
(Last 2 recent messages show that this bug is still a major security
issue...)
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I have this on a fresh install of 11.04, in about 5 days without
rebooting, logging-out/in or suspending my .xsession-errors fills up to
about 140 GB. I use this system for work so this is really annoying,
rebooting or logging out/in is a hassle because I have to re-setup my
environment (I can't au
I just came across this bug report after finally tracking down my own
disk space issues to .xsession-errors.old. The file had grown to over
13 GB!
Obviously, most users are not affected by this bug, so it seems to be
triggered by excessive error reporting somewhere else. In my case, the
most com
scm, as this bug has a much broader scope, I created bug 771661 for the
"allow symlinks" part of this. Thanks!
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Title:
.xsession_errors
Attached is a patch to gdm-session-worker to at least allow .xsession-
errors to be a symbolic link, so it can be manually moved elsewhere.
** Patch added: "don't overwrite symlinks as symlinks, instead overwrite their
destination"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/60448/+att
Happy 4th birthday bug report!
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/etc/X11/Xsession patch to disable error logging
** Patch added: "log xsession errors in /dev/null"
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Is there someone from the Ubuntu Security Team /Ubuntu Review Team
listening to this report?
This bug, as I've experienced it at first (I'm the initial reporter) and
as it is experienced by other reporters here, can clearly crash down a
system, so it's not just some ordinary "risk less" bug. I'v
Ive got ubuntu lucid and gnome, I don't log off, I'm running simple
lampp server. This morning I woke up to find that I had 2GB space left
because I had a massive 650GB log file in my hard drive. I deleted the
file manually, but should I just disable logging until this is fixed?
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this is still an annoying problem in lucid with gnome while running
buggy/verbose software. the file needs to be truncated in realtime and should
be disabled or put on a ramdisk for ssd users imho. this potentially breaks the
users' hardware in the long run without anything being really broken (
Stumbled upon this thread b/o system filling up to 100% slowly without clear
reason.
I second the last report by jason, similar issue, the .xsession-errors was
huge, removed it.
Amazing this issue still exists (or reoccurs)
yet slowly but surely the filesytem fills up with a MB per 1-3 minutes.
err:wave:wodPlayer_WriteMaxFrags Error in writing wavehdr. Reason:
Input/output error
It seems that this error is filling it up at a rate over 20 MB/sec while
I type this. Thanks for the command, manu, very helpful.
I just tried disabling the file per those instructions making a link to
/dev/null
#47
Jason, try:
tail --lines=20 ~/.xsession-errors
If you don't experience any other problems with X windows, just disable
it, see comment #41
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I can't find any text editor that can open a > 1 GB text file so I have
no idea what's causing it to expand that much, clearly the only way to
solve the expanding .xsession_errors is to cap it at a certain file
size. Having an option to disable it entirely would be nice too.
The file grows to 10 G
It appears that the .xsession-errors file creates anew after each
reboot, moving the previous content to .xsession-errors.old and an
enormous size file can be eliminated by rebooting twice, but what is
causing the file to grow needs to be determined and fixed otherwise the
problem recurs. I think m
It's gdm/kdm/other DM open this log file and keep it open; so they'd
need to watch it and truncate it regularly.
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gdm (Ubuntu)
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Importance: High => Low
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Status: In Progress => Triaged
** Changed
Here's a suggestion (keeping in mind that I'm not a developer,
programmer or anything alike - I'm just an "advanced user"): What about
a cron job that would run a script a regular interval (let's say each
hour), and delete any oldest content of the .xsession-errors file that
exceeds any reasonable
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => In Progress
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manu escribió:
> Only tested in my computer, so use it at your own risk. Open a console
> and write:
>
> cd ~
> rm -f .xsession-errors
> ln -s /dev/null .xsession-errors
Thank you, manu, I will try that.
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mlaverdiere [2009-10-22 11:08 -]:
> I'm the original reporter for this bug, more than 3 years ago, on
> Dapper. I don't want to criticize anyone, but it amazes me to see that
> this bug is still causing problem on Karmic...
It's a totally different root cause, though. Back then, the problem
w
Only tested in my computer, so use it at your own risk. Open a console
and write:
cd ~
rm -f .xsession-errors
ln -s /dev/null .xsession-errors
Now .xsession-errors will always be zero size. If you ever need to check
the errors or revert this, you do 'rm -f .xsession-errors" and it will
be created
I'm the original reporter for this bug, more than 3 years ago, on
Dapper. I don't want to criticize anyone, but it amazes me to see that
this bug is still causing problem on Karmic...
Here's what I think:
It's OK to point out that Babara's problem was caused by a buggy
Chromium installation. B
Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 16:46 -]:
> It seems that I get a lot of errors related to chromium-browser:
Thanks for testing. So this should be fixed in chromium then.
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Martin Pitt escribió:
> Can you please copy it aside (copy it to ~/xsession-errors.old),
> log out, back in, and check how big ~/.xsession-errors is? Did it get
> appended on or emptied?
>
Looks like the file has been emptied: it was 90 KiB (in 4 hours) and the
new one is 9,6 KiB. The content
Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 12:52 -]:
> Yes, it is GNOME. Why not?
Because with GNOME ~/.xsession-errors is cleaned on every session
startup. So either that's broken for you for some reason, or you just
have run your session for a very long time, or there is some
particular process which spews
Yes, it is GNOME. Why not?
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Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 11:40 -]:
> I don't think this is fixed at all: for me, .xsession-errors file
> has turned into a 279GB monster! Karmic Koala, AMD64
Which desktop environment are you using? It's obviously not GNOME?
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I don't think this is fixed at all: for me, .xsession-errors file has turned
into a 279GB monster!
Karmic Koala, AMD64
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I don't consider it a good idea to change this in dapper now.
** Changed in: xinit (Ubuntu Dapper)
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) => (unassigned)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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manu [2008-04-21 11:21 -]:
> exec | /usr/bin/fifo "2048" "$ERRFILE" 2>&1
That would be very inefficient, for every newly logged line you need
to entirely rewrite the file. That's a lot of I/O churn.
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@Martin,
Can't we add a filter before redirecting to the error file? Instead of:
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
we could have
exec | /usr/bin/fifo "2048" "$ERRFILE" 2>&1
fifo is a simple program (a script or even C program) that reads from
stdin and writes to an output file while the file size is unde
Since I'm not using KDE4 packages, what I notice may be irrelevant.
I'll just mention Nepomuk being way too verbose when associated with Strigi for
desktop search. If not properly set up, xsession-errors may be endlessly parsed.
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Ah, thanks for clarifying. Indeed, there is nothing that could clean up
~/.xsession-errors while a session is running.
Do you see a lot of recurring lines/patterns in your current file? One
issue is that this file shouldn't grow so large in the first place.
Sometimes programs go wild and spam the
@Martin : I'm not using the KDE4 packages. Just using the kdm-kde3 one
as login manager.
So, the "truncate ERRFILE" part is present in /etc/X11/Xsession.
However, for what I understand, this script is only read once when users
are opening their session.
There is no control of .xsession-errors' s
I just checked that the Xsession script code to truncate .xsession-
errors is still existant in Hardy. Apparently the script is not used any
more by KDE 4? Seems KDE4 needs to get its own fix for handing the
~/.xsession-errors file then?
** Also affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
It's mostly kde4 apps messages, but the content is not very important
IMO :-)
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Is it growing again? What are the contents? If it is growing again over
0.5 MB, just reopen the bug.
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I'm sorry, but is this bug supposed to be resolved ?
I've just lost some of my applications settings because .xsession-errors
got monstruously big (more than 4 Gb).
I'm using Hardy Heron and kdm as a login manager (if this detail has an
importance)
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What other distributions do about this? I cannot believe that we are the
only ones having this problem.
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:05:15PM -, manu wrote:
> Why not create a logrotate config file such as
> /etc/logrotate.d/xsession_errors with the following configuration:
>
> "/home/*/.xsession_errors"
> {
> rotate 1
> size 500k
> copytruncate
> missingok
> compress
> }
>
> It will che
Why not create a logrotate config file such as
/etc/logrotate.d/xsession_errors with the following configuration:
"/home/*/.xsession_errors"
{
rotate 1
size 500k
copytruncate
missingok
compress
}
It will check the file size daily and create one compressed copy
whenever the file exceeds
Hi Matt,
I propose to fix https://launchpad.net/bugs/60448 for dapper.
Impact: if an application goes wild and dumps large amounts of logging
to ~/.xsession-errors, there is nothing to clean up this file
and limit its size.
Edgy fix: http://librarian.launchpad.net/4679751/xorg.60
Debdiff for dapper-proposed
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Dapper ships that file in xinit.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu Dapper)
Sourcepackagename: xorg => xinit
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Target: None => dapper-updates
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This is the debdiff applied to edgy, should also be suitable for Dapper.
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xorg (1:7.1.1ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low
.
* debian/local/Xsession: If ~/.xsession-errors is bigger than 0.5MiB,
truncate it to the last 0.5MiB to avoid having it grow indefinitively.
(This does not happen with gdm anyway since gdm cleans the file on login).
Closes: LP#60448
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Pushing to final; this is easily corrected with an update after beta
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The best we can reasonably do at present is to rotate the file on login,
so that the information from the previous session is available for
debugging, but the file won't grow out of control.
Users who log out rarely should still be OK; a reboot from time to time
is still necessary in order to appl
I Just want to point out that this could not be enough to have this
file reset only upon session logout/in. The problems of this file
becoming huge and filling up all the disk space could still occur for
users who, for whatever reason, never log out. Think of theses users
(like me) who rely on h
For the record, a short discussion in #ubuntu-devel revealed that
there's no unanimous solution for this; Tollef had some proposals, let's
wait a bit for the discussion on ubuntu-devel@
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Fix for beta, if possible.
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Target: None => ubuntu-6.10-beta
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu Dapper)
Importance: Untriaged => High
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt
Status: Unco
I see no reason why this data should be preserved from one session to
the next; Martin, please care for it
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The offending code is in /etc/X11/Xsession
Some updates ago, code was changed to increment .xsession-errors instead
of overwrite it.
/etc/X11/Xsession line 94:
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
Change it back to:
exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1
I think reverting to the previous overwrite behaviour would be a good
e
** Description changed:
Hi,
I'm running Kubuntu Dapper, freshly dist-upgraded, on a Compaq Presario
V2610CA laptop, with no particular esoteric configuration.
- In the past 2 weeks, my disk space has been saturated **TWICE** (i.e.
- up to 100% occ. reported by the "df -h" command, wit
** Description changed:
Hi,
I'm running Kubuntu Dapper, freshly dist-upgraded, on a Compaq Presario
V2610CA laptop, with no particular esoteric configuration.
In the past 2 weeks, my disk space has been saturated **TWICE** (i.e.
up to 100% occ. reported by the "df -h" command, wit
For /var/log we have automatic log rotation, maybe we need something
similar for error logs in ~, too.
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Importance: Untriaged => High
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Thanks for your report. This is a well-known problem, thus I removed the
private flag for easier discussion.
** Visibility changed to: Public
** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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