On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:01:57PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:44:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > .xsession-error's "design" is simple. It is a Unix file to which the > > Unix standard output and standard error streams get redirected. > > > > I am probably not qualified to architect a replacement for something as > > venerable as Unix file I/O; I suggest you get in touch with Ken Thompson > > and Dennis Ritchie. > > > > In the meantime, I have a workaround to recommend: > > > > $ ln -sf /dev/null $HOME/.xsession-errors > > Rant aside, this does not work - the X kills itself on start if > $HOME/.xsession-errors is linked to /dev/null. And deleting it afterwards > doesn't make the problem disappear - it can still take arbitrary amounts > of diskspace, that would be freed only after closing the file - that is, > killing X. Hmm, you got me there, I had never actually tried this. Odd. Something is trying to seek the file? > Can you at least fix it to the point that such workaround actually works ? Well, not until I find out what the problem is. In the meantime, please try to identify the app that spewed 1.5GB of noise to stdout or stderr, and file a bug on it. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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