Bug#407901: kmilo: Many MB of error messages in ~/.xsession-errors

["Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at>]

X-Reportbug-Version: 3.33
X-Debbugs-Cc: philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at
Package: kmilo
Version: 4:3.5.5-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

[CCing last author of delli8k.cpp as per websvn]


I have a Dell Latitude D510, and get many Megabytes of log output in ~/.xsession-errors.
I measured ~40kB in 60 seconds.

Looking at 
   http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeutils/kmilo/delli8k/delli8k.cpp?view=markup
I'd suggest the following patch, to avoid that problem.

Currently I have to logoff/logon every day at least once, to free some 50 MB of space.


Thank you!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_AT.utf8)

Versions of packages kmilo depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a            4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-21        GCC support library
ii  libice6                1:1.0.1-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-1    PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt              3:3.3.7-3         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                 1:1.0.1-3         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-21          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-4         X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxtst6               1:1.0.1-5         X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-13        compression library - runtime

kmilo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- delli8k.cpp.orig	2007-01-22 10:13:30.000000000 +0100
+++ delli8k.cpp	2007-01-22 10:17:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -239,12 +239,18 @@
 
 int DellI8kMonitor::fn_status( int fd )
 {
+    static int error_already_printed;
     int args[1];
     int rc;
 
     if( ( rc = ioctl( fd, I8K_FN_STATUS, &args ) ) < 0 )
     {
-        kdError() << "KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()" << endl;
+        if (!error_already_printed)
+        {
+            kdError() << "KMilo: DellI8kMonitor: ioctl failed in fn_status()" << endl;
+            error_already_printed = 1;
+        }
+
         return rc;
     }