gdm had code to limit the number of lines to the error file, so lightdm
should probably do the same. It would also mean that lightdm would have
it's own Xsession startup script, which doesn't redirect stdout/stderr
to ~/.xsession-errors.
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => lightdm (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical => Medium
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) => (unassigned)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000775
Title:
[12.04] [ Precise] .xsession-errors getting spammed filling up the
disk.
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
The problem really is that .xsession-errors file in the /home/<user>
directory is allowed to grow to an unlimited size. On my system this file got
filled with error messages from indicator-weather and filled up my entire disk.
manjo@lazy:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 44G 42G 353M 100% /
udev 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 1016K 3.2G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 7.8G 604K 7.8G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 95M 118K 95M 1% /boot/efi
overflow 1.0M 92K 932K 9% /tmp
manjo@lazy:~$
Of which .xsession-errors.old file accounts for 31GB
-rw------- 1 manjo manjo 5.4K May 17 09:13 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 manjo manjo 31G May 16 21:03 .xsession-errors.old
You might be able to solve this problem if you delete the .xsessions-
errors file once it grows to say 1GB or even better create it in /tmp
so that it is removed on shutdown and does not eat up my full disk
space. This bug renders the system useless, I cant even file a bug
with ubuntu-bug, and it is very hard to find out what is eating up
the disk space since .xsession-error.old is a hidden file any normal
user will have no clue what just eat up his disk.
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