> Suggestion #1 There should be a file size limit and once that's > reached, it starts to overwrite.
> Suggestion #2 Implement the "This error repeats 147 more times" in the > error log rather than logging each error. Neither of these are practical solutions. The nature of .xsession- errors is that it captures the stdout and stderr output of programs *that have no knowledge of .xsession-errors*. I.e., this is a mechanism to make it possible to debug problems in programs run from the desktop without changing (and possibly without being *able* to change) the program you need to debug. A logging API that would support log rotation or elimination of duplicate messages is not a replacement for this. If any program in the desktop is spewing errors to stderr/stdout fast enough to fill up your disk, that's a serious bug in that program. However, despite using nspluginwrapper extensively here, I've never seen the bug in question. $ grep -i nsplugin ~/.xsession-errors $ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498911 Title: nspluginwrapper fills .xsession-errors until disk space is exhausted To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/498911/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
