Public bug reported:
GDM, or more specifically is flooding systemd journal and
/var/log/syslog via rsyslogd with gigabytes of the following messages:
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
I noticed the problem when I started to run out of disk because /var/log/syslog
was consuming more than 400GiB. I noticed that rsyslogd starts to consume a lot
of CPU trying to process such volume of messages.
** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051838
Title:
/usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too
many files to send
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gdm3 source package in Jammy:
New
Bug description:
GDM, or more specifically is flooding systemd journal and
/var/log/syslog via rsyslogd with gigabytes of the following messages:
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error:
WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
I noticed the problem when I started to run out of disk because
/var/log/syslog was consuming more than 400GiB. I noticed that rsyslogd starts
to consume a lot of CPU trying to process such volume of messages.
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