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Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors



Package: xserver-xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-2
Severity: critical

Today .xsession-errors grew over 1.5 gigabyte, filling all free space on /home
partition. Because of that, other programs couldn't save their data, and
some very important data was lost. It's not the first time I lost data because
of sudden explossion of .xsession-errors, so I'm filling a bug report with
this severity.

I have no idea which program caused so many errors. At the moment it's just 5kB.
But that's not really relevant. The problem is that the .xsession-errors is
misdesigned and must be fixed - I don't care how - by setting reasonable limits
on its size, limiting kind of errors that have to be logged, removing it altogether,
or some other way. But the current situation is not acceptable.




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