This best be discussed and fixed by upstream. Please file a bug report
at bugs.kde.org.
** Changed in: kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771661
Title:
Allow .xsession-errors to be a symlink
Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
Fix Released
Status in Lucid Backports:
Fix Released
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “kde-workspace” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in “gdm” source package in Lucid:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gdm
Bug 60448 discusses the problem about ~/.xsession-errors growing
unbearably large when there are buggy programs spamming it. One remedy
is to allow ~/.xsession-errors to be a symlink to e. g. /dev/null or a
local file, so that you can at least avoid network contention if ~ is
on NFS.
scm sent a first patch for this
(https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70203386/gdm-session-worker.c.diff). This
should be cleaned up to use g_file_test() and reported upstream.
SRU TEST CASE:
* Remove ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.xsession-errors.old
* ln -s /tmp/xe ~/.xsession-errors
* Reboot and log back in.
-> Current behavior: the ~/.xsession-errors symlink gets rotated to
~/.xsession-errors.old, and a new ~/.xsession-errors is created as a regular
file.
-> Desired behaviour: ~/.xsession-errors remains a symlink, and the target
file /tmp/xe is truncated for the new session.
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