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Re: The .xsession-errors problem

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in
> size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all
> seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file?
>
>   - Do you just delete it when you happen to notice it's too big?
>
>   - Do you configure some rotating system, perhaps with logrotate(8)?
>     (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?)
>
>   - Do you add it to your backup system's ignore list so that a
>     potentially big file doesn't fill your backups?
>
>   - What do Debian documentation and faq lists teach about maintaining
>     this potentially huge file?
>
>   - Why is it normal that in Debian (and GNU/Linux) you need to manually
>     delete a hidden file to keep it from filling your hard disks?
>
> Note that I'm not necessarily looking for help but different views are
> welcome. I'm mostly interested in the phenomenon that there still is
> this well-known indefinitely growing file and seemingly no automatic
> rotation.
>
> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111
> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started grow
> again.

Amateur. I found a 24 GB .xsession-errors once, on a 30 GB filesystem.
423 million lines. Most of them the same:

(indicator-weather:2201): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **:
dbusmenu_menuitem_build_variant: assertion `DBUSMENU_IS_MENUITEM(mi)'
failed

Buggy crap can fill it up pretty fast.

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The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-26 17:50 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-10-26 18:10 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-27 16:10 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-27 20:20 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-10-26 18:20 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-10-26 19:10 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-10-26 19:30 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 00:10 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-10-27 00:30 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 13:00 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 14:50 +0100
        Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 05:30 +0100
          Re: The .xsession-errors problem Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 12:50 +0100
          Re: The .xsession-errors problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 19:40 +0100
            Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-29 00:10 +0100
              Re: The .xsession-errors problem Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-10-29 19:30 +0100
                Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-30 01:00 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-27 01:00 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 01:30 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 13:00 +0100
        Re: The .xsession-errors problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-29 18:40 +0100
  Re: The .xsession-errors problem Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2020-11-01 11:20 +0100
    Re: The .xsession-errors problem Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2020-11-01 17:50 +0100
      Re: The .xsession-errors problem Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-11-01 18:40 +0100

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