[Gllug] Re: x-session errors growing too large

[Christopher Currie]

>    8. xsession-errors growing too large (Jon Dye)
>    9. Re: xsession-errors growing too large (Richard Jones)
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:53:11 +0000
 Jon Dye <jon at pecorous.co.uk> wrote in part:

> When started using my PC this morning I discovered that I'd filled up my
> /home partition overnight and my PC had started bouncing email.
>
> I eventually tracked down the problem to a 5.1GB ~/.xsession-errors
> file.  I have deleted the file but I've just realised that various X
> processes have the file open still so it's still using up the disk
> space.  I'd rather not restart X (especially as I'm currently remote
> from the machine and stuff is running in X).  Is there a way to get the
> various processes to re-open xsession-errors?  The processes in question
> seem to be most of kde.

and on Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:48:00 +0000  Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote 
in part:

> This in itself is very unusual.  My .xsession-errors file currently
> stands at a grand total of 6K in size and I've never seen one growing
> big at all.  Before you deleted the file did you get a chance to look
> at the messages?  You can probably strace one of the processes which
> has this file open still and find out what particular error is causing
> the file to grow.  Perhaps there is a real problem that needs to be
> fixed.

which version of KDE do you use, Jon?

I have had this problem with 3.5.1 on SuSE 10.1 - or rather my son has 
(occasionally) with his sessions. It doesn't happen to me or any other user 
of this machine. The elephantiasized ~/xsession-errors log file is left even 
after he logs out and/or shuts down, and typically after such an incident I 
come on the machine and find the home partition overfull (once, completely 
full). If we then start a new session under his userid, the log file is 
immediately autodeleted and the lost space returns. 

I have not been able to discover what process causes it but it's clearly 
something he runs and I don't. He hasn't worked out what it is either. I 
suspect it is a non-KDE process. 

I sometimes have substantial growth of xsession-errors caused by an erroneous 
call from SuperKaramba aeroG-cpu-temp, but of 100KBs order, not MB or GB.

Will be glad to hear of any solution.

Christopher

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