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Re: The .xsession-errors problem

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On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +0000, Tixy wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen 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?

> > > Don't do anything here. The file is created fresh at each boot and is
> > > 30 lines long [...]

> > Something that you're doing, or something that was done for you, is
> > clearing that file.  Your case is not the default.  By default, that
> > file is never cleared, and just keeps growing.  Most people prune it
> > manually whenever they notice it getting bigger than they like, which
> > is usually somewhere between "once a year" and "never".

> On my system the file is rotated (renamed to .xsession-errors.old), on
> every login as far as I can tell.

> Didn't find (yet) what is doing this (using lightdm, LXDE and minimal
> Xorg).

I had a curiosity about this, because some people are reporting that they
need to manage their growing .xsession-errors file by various methods,
but I never have seen this.

I see the same behaviour as Andrei, and I also use parts of LXDE.

I investigated, guided by this teaching from Reco:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/04/msg00583.html

I found that the process that renames the file to .xsession-errors.old
is the binary /usr/bin/lxsession owned by the user, with the parent
process lightdm owned by root.

/usr/bin/lxsession is a component of LXDE, so this won't apply to
users of other GUI providers.

The rename occurs when the user logs in from lightdm. The filename
.xsession-errors is defined in the script file /etc/X11/Xsession

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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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