Bug#732832: gnome-session: Spams syslog with user log messages

[Craig Small]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.16.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #732832

This problem still exists in the current version of gnome session. No
idea who thought it was a good thing to spam the system logger.

If you do something in rsyslog.conf like the following it helps:
*.*;user,auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog

The user part is added. At least that calms down the syslog file and
makes logcheck useful again.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin  3.16.0-1
ii  gnome-session-common   3.16.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.16.2-3
ii  gnome-shell3.16.3-1

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base  8.0.2
ii  gnome-keyring 3.16.0-4
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.16.1-1

-- no debconf information

Bug#732832: gnome-session: Spams syslog with user log messages

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.10.1-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

In the olden days, errors inside an X session would be logged to
~/.xsession-errors. These days, it seems gnome-session logs all errors in all
user programs to the system log. This leads to two problems:

* It is very hard for the user to take a look at things that may have gone wrong
  inside their current or previous session.
* It is very hard for the sysadmin to write logcheck rules to filter out the
  user messages while keeping messages that may indicate problems with
  gnome-session on a system level.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin  3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-session-common   3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-shell3.10.1-1

Versions of packages gnome-session recommends:
ii  systemd  204-5

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base  7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information


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