*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 589275 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589275
further suggestion from ion in IRC. "On my system, there’s a great number of messages from Gtk applications that have extra newlines, making uniq unable to do its magic. exec 2>&1 | grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*$' | uniq -c | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*1[[:space:]]//' | head -c 5000000 >> "$ERRFILE" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661494 Title: Request to limit xinit writes to .xsession-errors to some reasonable value, such as 10 megs -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs