Comment 42 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 | #42 |
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mlaverdiere [2009-10-22 11:08 -0000]:
> 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
was that the login managers never truncated ~/.xsession-errors. They
have done this for years now. But that doesn't help if programs spam
the log within a session.
> It's OK to point out that Babara's problem was caused by a buggy
> Chromium installation. But still, a Ubuntu installation should not
> allow any buggy program to cause a disk saturation with an out of
> control growing .xsession_errors file...
That's true, but not quite easy to achieve.