On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: > >>> Thanks for the advice. > >>> I looked at the files under /root, and found > >>> there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. > >>> What is that? Can I delete it? > >> > >> That tells me you should not be using X as root. > >> > >> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not > >> run "certain program as root". > > > > Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer, > > avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of > > junk into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me > > running as normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really > > after I removed the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the > > problem. > > Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no? Well it was either the linking or have it continue to fill up the partition, this was the only time I have ever had to deal with the file in the many years I have been using GNU/Linux. I figure if I ever need to get some information out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce the error again. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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