Re: mount.ecryptfs_private in .xsession with autologin [SOLVED]

2021-11-02 Thread Lucio Crusca
I've finally sorted it out. The problem is Debian bug 870126. Work around it by manually adding: sessionoptional pam_keyinit.so force revoke to /etc/pam.d/nodm

Re: mount.ecryptfs_private in .xsession with autologin

2021-11-02 Thread Curt
On 2021-11-01, Lucio Crusca wrote: > On Nov 1, 2021 I wrote: >> (actually a Raspbian, but I assume it's no different > > I've now tried installing a clean Debian 11 with Nodm in a virtual > machine and I face exactly the same problem, so we can safely exclude > any Raspbian-specific problems.

Re: mount.ecryptfs_private in .xsession with autologin

2021-11-01 Thread Lucio Crusca
On Nov 1, 2021 I wrote: (actually a Raspbian, but I assume it's no different I've now tried installing a clean Debian 11 with Nodm in a virtual machine and I face exactly the same problem, so we can safely exclude any Raspbian-specific problems.

mount.ecryptfs_private in .xsession with autologin

2021-11-01 Thread Lucio Crusca
` automatically at system startup. The system is a Debian GNU/Linux 10 (actually a Raspbian, but I assume it's no different to this end) that uses NoDM [1] to start Xorg. It automatically logs the unprivileged user in and it runs the `$HOME/.xsession` startup script. I have the following script

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-11-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, 11:48 AM Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: > >> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 > >> megabytes. Probably I

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-11-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2020-11-01 11:09:50+01, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: >> From my backups I found an ~/.xsession-errors file of size 111 >> megabytes. Probably I deleted the file at that point and it started >> grow again. > > Amateur

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-11-01 Thread Anders Andersson
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:43 PM Teemu Likonen wrote: > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > -

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-29 Thread David
code that referenced > > "xsession-errors" or "ERRFILE" or any logfile except > > "~/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log". > > The relevant code apparently exists in the greeter app (or whatever it's > called) I use (lightdm): > > src/session.c

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-29 Thread Curt
On 2020-10-28, David wrote: > > Yes, I don't feel that I found the full answer. Because I spent a while > using https://codesearch.debian.net/ to examine the source code > of lxsession but I was unable to find any code that referenced > "xsession-errors" or "

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Oct 2020 at 07:53:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28:12AM +1100, David wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote: > > > fuser -v "$j" > > > [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j&

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-28 Thread David
, Tixy wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > > > > > > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have > &

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-28 Thread Celejar
:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > > > > > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > > > > > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this f

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 oct 20, 15:28:37, David wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On my system the file is rotated (renamed to .xsession-errors.old), on > > every login as far as I can tell. > > > Didn't find (yet) what is doing this (using lightdm

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread David
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors f

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread rhkramer
gt;> (Why doesn't Debian have this automatically?) I simply (like someone else mentioned on the list) truncate the file periodically (actually, once every minute) using a crontab with a task like this: * * * * * echo "Cleared on $(date) by $USER cron" > /home//.xsessi

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
tance, such logrotate policy > would be denied by SELinux. > That, and inviting running-as-root logrotate to cleanup user files opens > all kinds of trouble. I'm using KDE Plasma desktop and my .xsession-errors grows quite fast. I'll probably write some rotation system for the f

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 27 oct 20, 07:55:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > > > size. Sometimes it grows r

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:07:37PM +, Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > > seen it and

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:28:12AM +1100, David wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote: > > fuser -v "$j" > > [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j" && mv -i "$j.gz" "$HOME/.monitors/xsession/" > > &

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread David
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 10:56, David Wright wrote: > fuser -v "$j" > [ $? -ne 0 ] && gzip "$j" && mv -i "$j.gz" "$HOME/.monitors/xsession/" [...] > (Script improvements always appreciated.) Hi, you might be interes

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Oct 2020 at 18:35:45 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > >

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Tixy writes: > I guess as I never hibernate my laptop and turn it off every day, it > never gets to an annoying size. I haven't rebooted my desktop for three months. ls -l .xsession-errors shows 468223. I consider that trivial and ignore it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? Don't do anyt

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Linux-Fan
Teemu Likonen writes: It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? Until now, I had not seen it as a problem. But it is quite large

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
n 2005-02-27. There are ideas about /etc/X11/Xsession script too. Debian developers certainly can fix this if they want. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-10-26 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > - Do you just

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:35:45PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain

The .xsession-errors problem

2020-10-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? - Do you just delete it when you happen to notice it's too big? - Do you configure

.xsession-errors

2020-08-02 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
Hi there, I found the following in the ~/.xsession-errors : dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 I was trying to search the net but no luck. Any suggestions

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-04-06 18:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:45:20PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >> Basically even the standard "exec ..." in the /etc/X11/Xsession file (with >> changed $ERRFILE) works fine, but I have to "cat" the FIFO device

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 06:45:20PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Basically even the standard "exec ..." in the /etc/X11/Xsession file (with > changed $ERRFILE) works fine, but I have to "cat" the FIFO device first > (without > using systemd). The same w

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-04-06 17:53, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 05:48:35PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >> If I set $ERRFILE to the FIFO device, processing of the script will be >> stopped >> in the point where "exec ..." appears (before sourcing the >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ >> dir). > >

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-04-06 18:29, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2018, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >> Basically, all messages returned by X-applications are redirected to the >> ~/.xsession-errors file. > [...] >> Unfortunately, the ~/.xsession-errors file grows in size, and a

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 06 Apr 2018, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Basically, all messages returned by X-applications are redirected to the > ~/.xsession-errors file. [...] > Unfortunately, the ~/.xsession-errors file grows in size, and after a > few hours it's around 20-30 MiB, and the content of th

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 05:48:35PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > If I set $ERRFILE to the FIFO device, processing of the script will be stopped > in the point where "exec ..." appears (before sourcing the > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ > dir). You need to run something in the background which opens

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 2018-04-06 15:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:18:08PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: >> Basically, all messages returned by X-applications are redirected to the >> ~/.xsession-errors file [...] > >> till a terminal with "cat" is st

Re: How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:18:08PM +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > Basically, all messages returned by X-applications are redirected to the > ~/.xsession-errors file [...] > till a terminal with "cat" is started inside of the

How to redirect messages in ~/.xsession-errors to a FIFO device?

2018-04-06 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
Basically, all messages returned by X-applications are redirected to the ~/.xsession-errors file. In some desktop environments this file is emptied with each X session restart. At least that was the case of my Openbox + LightDM setup. Now, I'm trying to migrate to KDE/Plasma5, and as a part

Re: determine /dev/pts/1 in .xsession

2016-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Jun 2016 at 13:13:22 (-0700), Mike McClain wrote: > I open several aps in .xsession, a couple of xterms, clock, iceweasel. > The first in .xsession is an xterm I use for command line stuff. > This xterm is seldom at any one pts but rather moves around. Is there > a w

determine /dev/pts/1 in .xsession

2016-06-24 Thread Mike McClain
I open several aps in .xsession, a couple of xterms, clock, iceweasel. The first in .xsession is an xterm I use for command line stuff. This xterm is seldom at any one pts but rather moves around. Is there a way to tell X to always open that xterm on /dev/pts/1? Thanks, Mike -- During

Re: .xsession-errors de 224G

2015-07-10 Thread moi-meme
Le Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:30:02 +0200, Stéphane GARGOLY a écrit : Moi, ce qui m'interpelle surtout, c'est de se retrouver avec un fichier '.xsession-errors' de plus de... 200 Gio (soit plus de 200 000 Mio ou encore plus de 200 000 000 kio). o_O Je me demande comment cela est possible

Re: .xsession-errors de 224G

2015-07-10 Thread Fabien R
On 10/07/2015 08:38, moi-meme wrote: surtout que ce n'est pas une maladie du DD. C'est la deuxième fois que cela se produit. Juste par curiosité, tu peux publier un extrait ? -- Fabien -- Lisez la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une question : http://wiki.debian.org/fr/FrenchLists Pour

Re: .xsession-errors de 224G

2015-07-10 Thread moi-meme
Le Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:30:01 +0200, Fabien R a écrit : C'est la deuxième fois que cela se produit. Juste par curiosité, tu peux publier un extrait ? -- tu le veux les 220G en totalité ? :-) Non poubelle mais à la fin du fichier il disait en boucle qu'il ne trouvait pas un fichier, je ne

Re: .xsession-errors de 224G

2015-07-09 Thread Stéphane GARGOLY
pour éviter que le fichier explose ? (limiter sa taille) Moi, ce qui m'interpelle surtout, c'est de se retrouver avec un fichier '.xsession-errors' de plus de... 200 Gio (soit plus de 200 000 Mio ou encore plus de 200 000 000 kio). o_O Je me demande comment cela est possible. Cordialement et

.xsession-errors de 224G

2015-07-09 Thread moi-meme
un peu gros et ça ne laisse pas de place pour travailler :-( Suite à petit problème X ça m'a tout bloqué. Effacé le fichier : c'est reparti. Mais comment faire pour éviter que le fichier explose ? (limiter sa taille) -- Lisez la FAQ de la liste avant de poser une question :

.xinit vs. .xsession summary (was: Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X)

2014-11-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 04:17:21PM +, Brian wrote: On Sat 08 Nov 2014 at 06:02:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Do you have a reference about .xinitrc vs. .xsession? Lots. :). Fortunately, startx(1) has now been altered to read: Note that in the Debian system, what many people

Re: .xinit vs. .xsession summary (was: Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X)

2014-11-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 08 Nov 2014 at 07:16:41 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 04:17:21PM +, Brian wrote: On Sat 08 Nov 2014 at 06:02:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Do you have a reference about .xinitrc vs. .xsession? Lots. :). Fortunately, startx(1) has now been altered to read

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:33:59, Raffaele Morelli wrote: On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? I prefer

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-25 Thread John Conover
Andrei POPESCU writes: On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:33:59, Raffaele Morelli wrote: On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/10/14 22:11, John Conover wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: On Vi, 24 oct 14, 09:33:59, Raffaele Morelli wrote: On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-25 Thread Brian
you have both. Per user there is also ~/.dmrc. In this particular case, the problem was an ~/.xinitrc, (linked to ~/.xsession, dated 1994!!! launching fvwm,) in the user's account. If a .xinitrc/.xsession file exists, it is executed as Default Session by lightdm, (regardless

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? I prefer to do this at system level (i.e. will work for any DM): update-alternatives --config x-session-manager Kind

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? I prefer to do this at system level (i.e. will work for any DM

lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-23 Thread John Conover
I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/14 13:38, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? Thanks, John As root:- /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s xfce4-session Ref:- /usr/lib/i386

Re: lightdm's Default Xsession?

2014-10-23 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 23/10/14 at 07:38pm, John Conover wrote: I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's Default Xsession is fvwm2. How do I change lightdm's Default Xsession to xfce? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/09/2014, Chen Wei weichen...@icloud.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has been growing in the last hour. entries from before the current boot session) entries, so as to reduce the file

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-15 Thread Paul Trevethan
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:07:48 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/09/2014, Chen Wei weichen...@icloud.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has been growing in the last hour

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-14 Thread Chen Wei
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has been growing in the last hour. entries from before the current boot session) entries, so as to reduce the file size to content that is necessary to retain

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-10 Thread Bret Busby
the file, then ran Empty Trash Can, but, no disc space was freed, then, subsequently, I observed that a new file had been created; .xsession-errors.old with a size of about 33kB, and so I overwrote that, as described above, and that reduced its size to zero, but, I now do not have

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-10 Thread Bret Busby
the system up in the same state, you might see it in /proc/$(pidof Xorg)/fd (or it might be another process other than Xorg, or I might be wrong entirely) if you have lsof installed, you can find out what processes are still using the deleted file quite easily: $ lsof |grep '\.xsession

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-10 Thread davidson
have the system up in the same state, you might see it in /proc/$(pidof Xorg)/fd (or it might be another process other than Xorg, or I might be wrong entirely) if you have lsof installed, you can find out what processes are still using the deleted file quite easily: $ lsof |grep '\.xsession

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-10 Thread lee
Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com writes: I note that, with that file that is being accessed by Nautilus, assuming that the number 1169162 , is the size of the file, I have tried, but, apparently, can not reduce that to zero, as that number does not change, with my attempts. On a side note:

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-10 Thread lee
Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com writes: So, I believe (unttil and unless, advised otherwise) that the deleteing the file (which did not free up the disc space, in itself), and then, renaming the xsystem-errors.old file, to xsystem-errors, appears to have disappeared the problem, which, if I

Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. In trying to work out why my disk space gets progressively consumed so that I repeatedly run out of disc space without any known reason, in examining my hidden files in my home directory, I found the file .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has been growing

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Reco
that is necessary to retain for debugging? xsession-errors should be re-created when a new session starts (see /etc/X11/Xsession for the details). Long-running X session can produce annoyingly large .xsession-errors indeed. The solution to this problem comes in the form of logrotate: $ cat /etc

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 09/09/14 at 03:29pm, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. In trying to work out why my disk space gets progressively consumed so that I repeatedly run out of disc space without any known reason, in examining my hidden files in my home directory, I found the file .xsession-errors, which is currently

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
incantation is one answer: tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 chrisb chrisb 33K Sep 9 17:40 .xsession-errors tal% : .xsession-errors tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 chrisb chrisb 0 Sep 9 21:25 .xsession-errors -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Bret Busby
such damage would occur by deleting it, but the following incantation is one answer: tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 chrisb chrisb 33K Sep 9 17:40 .xsession-errors tal% : .xsession-errors tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 chrisb chrisb 0 Sep 9 21:25 .xsession-errors

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Bret Busby
to the boot session, would occur. I very much doubt that any such damage would occur by deleting it, but the following incantation is one answer: tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 chrisb chrisb 33K Sep 9 17:40 .xsession-errors tal% : .xsession-errors tal% ls -alh .xsession-errors -rw

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 01:24:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Just out of interest, top shows the system as having been up for 21 days, so, the xsession-errors file grew to 743MB, in 21 days. I saw, at the top of that file, before I deleted it, reference to 21 August, so, the file apparently, grows

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/09/2014, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 01:24:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Just out of interest, top shows the system as having been up for 21 days, so, the xsession-errors file grew to 743MB, in 21 days. I saw, at the top of that file, before I deleted

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:54:08AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The file has (kind of) gone, now (it is no longer accessible, but, appears to still exist, in the ether of the unknown; still taking up disc space, whilst, in theory, non-existent), A file continues to use up disk space until all open

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread Chris Bannister
, then, subsequently, I observed that a new file had been created; .xsession-errors.old with a size of about 33kB, and so I overwrote that, as described above, and that reduced its size to zero, but, I now do not have the original file with which to do that, and, I have about 750MB of missing

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-09 Thread davidson
be another process other than Xorg, or I might be wrong entirely) if you have lsof installed, you can find out what processes are still using the deleted file quite easily: $ lsof |grep '\.xsession-errors' might produce lines like xterm 2237 busbyenator 1w REG 8,1 0 359981 /home/busbyenator

Configuratie van GNOME 3 in Wheezy: foutmeldingen in .xsession-errors

2014-05-31 Thread Jan-Rens Reitsma
Hallo, In het bestand .xsession-errors op mijn dikke, slome laptop staan veel foutmeldingen die wijzen op configuratiefouten van gnome-session en DBus, te beginnen met: (gnome-settings-daemon:3923): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get devices: Failed to GetDevices

.xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 Can someone explain what's this about ? Should I be concerned? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread yaro
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:12:20 PM Frank McCormick wrote: I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 Can someone explain what's this about ? Should I

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 Can someone explain what's this about ? It's glibtop complaining about

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
Version: 2.28.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? ..xsession-errors entry: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
uts for running kernel: Package: libgtop2-7 Version: 2.28.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? ..xsession-errors entry: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 I have a comment to the bug...re

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
code: Fwd: Bug#739444: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: Package: libgtop2-7 Version: 2.28.5-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? ..xsession-errors entry: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-amd64=3.12.0 gives version code

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/02/14 02:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-02-18 18:12 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: I have been noticing this error in .xsession-errors file lately: glibtop: Non-standard uts for running kernel: release 3.12-1-686-pae=3.12.0 gives version code 199680 Can someone explain what's

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 11:19 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: This is probably not the best advice but: If nothing slows down/crashes/screws up data, then you can probably ignore it. It's a good advice, it's only missing that people should do some Internet research.

Re: .xsession-errors

2014-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Bug#739444 Oops, by accident I posted a wrong link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1392754630.2586.42.camel@archlinux

Error en el archivo .xsession-errors

2014-02-10 Thread Rantis Cares
caras del cubo 3D que se puede ver. Despues desaparecio el menu, ya no sale. Despues de me quede sin espacio siendo que el disco era de 1 thera y no encontraba la solucion hasta que investigando llegue a que el archivo xsession-errors es el que se llena rapido y ocupa todo el disco duro. Para trabjar

Re: Error en el archivo .xsession-errors

2014-02-10 Thread Camaleón
desaparecio el menu, ya no sale. Despues de me quede sin espacio siendo que el disco era de 1 thera y no encontraba la solucion hasta que investigando llegue a que el archivo xsession-errors es el que se llena rapido y ocupa todo el disco duro. Para trabjar tuve que borrarlo en su totalidad e hice un

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2014-01-03 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 16:28:05 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/13/13, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Clearly consolekit is started (logout, as well as reboot etc now work), my keyboard shortcuts work etc. This seems ideal - no per-user configuration, and it just works

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2014-01-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/3/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 16:28:05 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 12/13/13, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Clearly consolekit is started (logout, as well as reboot etc now work), my keyboard shortcuts work etc. This seems ideal - no

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2014-01-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession and I have no ~/.xsessionrc . So now things work as well as they did with ~/.xinitrc , but without any ~/.x* files! This is good. Clearly consolekit is started (logout, as well as reboot etc now work), my keyboard shortcuts work etc. This seems ideal - no per-user

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-12 00:21:18 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: 2.1 xdm graphical login manager (or gdm, or kdm, or lightdm, or other) Runs /etc/X11/Xsession Redirects output to .xsession-errors [...] Not for gdm3 3.5.2+. $XDG_CACHE_HOME/gdm/session.log is now used, but this is currently a bit

Re: FVWM + ( Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, or .xsessionrc )

2013-12-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Dec 2013 at 17:17:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:25:56PM +, Brian wrote: Put exec fvwm after the xterm command in .xsession. This command does not complete and .xsession doesn't close. You've summoned X, give it a chance to show off

FVWM + ( Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, or .xsessionrc )

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:25:56PM +, Brian wrote: Put exec fvwm after the xterm command in .xsession. This command does not complete and .xsession doesn't close. You've summoned X, give it a chance to show off what it can do :). EXERCISE: You decide 'exec fvwm' is a splendid

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:23:48PM +, Brian wrote: On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 00:21:18 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The man page for Xsession documents ~/.xsessionrc and ~/.xsession. It says that ~/.xsessionrc is only for setting variables and the ~/.xsession is for executing commands

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-14 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 06:29:52 +1300 Chris Bannister sent: I do remember this issue in the past, a google was not very helpful - and may even have been misleading - e.g. suggesting that .xsessionrc was the correct file to use. And since .xsession or .xinitrc didn't work I must have assumed

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-14 Thread Brian
. Remember that a script executes each line sequentially and only moves on to the next line if the previous command completes. The xterm is put in the background; the command has completed. There is no next line in .xsessionrc so /etc/X11/Xsession moves on from 40x11-common_xsessionrc to 50x11

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
is not conducive to holding in my mind at the same time to answer this question. I have experimented with a couple combinations, but there are too many. I have at the moment, startx working well, with .xinitrc and .xsession both linking to the same file (bash script, with my exec ... line). When I log

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I wonder, in Debian does a path exist so that if a user wants to install a g.u.i. environment without gdm and with startX so that they can run in console mode by default and when they want to go g.u.i. they run startX to do it and have orca start up after that automatically? If so, I'd like to

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
orca start up after that automatically? If so, I'd like to learn how to do that. Perhaps re-read this thread (and the other similar one) again in detail. This is exactly what I'm doing. Or if you want simple answer: create ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession and make the file look like mine (see earlier

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

2013-12-12 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:28:54 -0700 Bob Proulx sent: No it really should be ~/.xsession. This can be deduced by inspecting the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50x11-common_determine-startup file. Or see the man page such as these snippets from it. That's what I had for years but then something must have

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