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From: T o n g on 19 May 2010 12:20 Hi, 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 way too big. I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it each time when started (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 Any comment? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ht131h$ell$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 19 May 2010 12:40 On Wednesday 19 May 2010 11:18:57 T o n g wrote: > 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 way too > big. > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it > each time when started > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) > whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD > gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 > > Any comment? For what reason can't you simply modify you Xsession file to do as you like? It is a conffile, so your changes would be preserved through upgrades. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Sven Joachim on 19 May 2010 12:50 On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote: > 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 way too > big. > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it > each time when started > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) > whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD > gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 > > Any comment? You may want to follow up on these bugs, since the _current_ X developers in Debian never spoke up. And I think that there is so much crapware that puts out useless junk on stderr or stdout (the worst offender is KDE4 software, until you find out that is possible to put an end to this by running kdebugdialog) that the battle to make ~/.xsession-errors useful has long been lost. Sven -- % grep errors ~/.xsession > ~/.xsession-errors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkzv3kof.fsf(a)turtle.gmx.de
From: d.sastre.medina on 19 May 2010 13:20 On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:45:04PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-19 18:18 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > 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 way too > > big. > > > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it > > each time when started > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) > > whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > > > However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD > > gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 > > > > Any comment? > > You may want to follow up on these bugs, since the _current_ X > developers in Debian never spoke up. And I think that there is so much > crapware that puts out useless junk on stderr or stdout (the worst > offender is KDE4 software, until you find out that is possible to put an > end to this by running kdebugdialog) that the battle to make > ~/.xsession-errors useful has long been lost. FWIW, I don't have that problem, although /etc/X11/Xsession says: exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 (despite the solution proposed in¹) echo "$PROGNAME: X session started for $LOGNAME at $(date)" and the contents of it are, unsurprisingly: "Xsession: X session started for dawud at mié may 19 18:25:05 CEST 2010" $ ll .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 dawud dawud 72 may 19 18:25 .xsession-errors This is a Lenny box, BTW. What are the perms for that file? maybe (wild guess) it lacks w? Regards. ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876 -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on 19 May 2010 13:50
T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > 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 way too > big. > > I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it > each time when started > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) > whereas currently, my ~/.xsession-errors kept logs back to stone age. > > However, such reasonable request has been tabled for 6 years now. The DD > gave loads of irrelevant reasons as excuse of not fixing it. Ref: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276545 > > Any comment? > My .xsession-errors is now: hugo(a)debian:~$ ls -l .xsession-errors -rw-r--r-- 1 hugo hugo 200043 2010-05-19 12:34 .xsession-errors and it is filled with: .... error 173 request 152 minor 8 serial 1023 error 173 request 152 minor 8 serial 1176 error 173 request 152 minor 8 serial 1271 error 173 request 152 minor 8 serial 1323 .... I asked about that several times who knows where and when and nobody answered, as will be the case here. It gets that way after I do (in Fvwm) Key F9 A M Exec /usr/local/bin/xcompmgr -c -f so that I can make my onscreen monitors grow translucent to see what is behind them: Mouse 4 W S Exec /usr/bin/transset-df --min 0.1 --id=$[w.id] --dec 0.2 Mouse 5 W S Exec /usr/bin/transset-df -p --inc 0.1 --id=$[w.id] But .xsession-errors gets initialized at the beginning of each session, who knows why... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ht185u$77n$1(a)dough.gmane.org |