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  1. Bug #60448
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 60448

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 60448] Re: .xsession_errors file grows out of control & saturates disk space

Bárbara Jiménez [2009-10-21 12:52 -0000]:
> 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 a lot of messages into it.

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?

If it got emptied, how long have you run your previous session since
the last login from gdm? (suspending/hibernating continues an existing
session)

If the last session isn't that old yet (like only a day old), is there
something in ~/.xsession-errors which got repeated over and over?

Thanks, Martin

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