Huge .xsession-errors

TheEternalVortex · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject: Huge .xsession-errors

For some reason, my ~/.xsession-errors file seems to grow to a huge size very quickly at certain times. I can't figure out why this happens, but it quickly fill up my hard drive (~15 GB free) and I am unable to do anything. Programs still think it is fill, even after I delete it, so I am forced to do a reboot to keep my computer usable.

I'd appreciate any help, thanks.
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daen1543 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject:

Yesterday I noticed I had the same problem... The hard drive was full, i couldn't really do anything. I rebooted into LiveCD, and found that ~/.xsession-errors was taking up all the space. It had

TheEternalVortex · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 2:16 am Post subject:

I remove it and it reboots fine, but I've lost a lot of data because of this (try to save, out of space, etc.)
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daen1543 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 5:44 am Post subject:

By the way, are you running Kopete? I stumbled upon these bug reports:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54955, and
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56028

Looks really similar to our problem... Let's hope it's not a hard-to-fix bug, Kopete is great otherwise!

TheEternalVortex · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 6:44 pm Post subject:

Oh I am, actually... thanks for finding the cause.
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The Khan Artist · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject:

So it's Kopete, eh? I've been wondering why the hell I'd wind up with 18 GB error logs... I sure hope it gets fixed soon!

Here's a temporary solution until the bug gets fixed:

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

I'm not using Kopete but I am experiencing the same problem!
And the workaround "link your .xsession-errors to /dev/null until the bug is fixed" does not really fix the situation, as everything will be written into /tmp/xses-myusername
This is very annoying and I lose a lot of data all the time

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SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

no I don't. I didn't even know there was a /dev/null patch

I'm using unpatched vanilla-sources 2.4.21
I will try to find some workaround for the /tmp/xses-myusername file too, because as the /home/myusername/.xsession-errors is linked to /dev/null, this file does not cause any further problems. I only hope there won't appear yet another file after I find a workaround for /tmp/xses-myusername

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

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