Allow .xsession-errors to be a symlink
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Light Display Manager |
Triaged
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Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Lucid Backports |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
gdm |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Martin Pitt | ||
kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gdm
Bug 60448 discusses the problem about ~/.xsession-errors growing unbearably large when there are buggy programs spamming it. One remedy is to allow ~/.xsession-errors to be a symlink to e. g. /dev/null or a local file, so that you can at least avoid network contention if ~ is on NFS.
scm sent a first patch for this (https:/
SRU TEST CASE:
* Remove ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.xsession-
* ln -s /tmp/xe ~/.xsession-errors
* Reboot and log back in.
-> Current behavior: the ~/.xsession-errors symlink gets rotated to ~/.xsession-
-> Desired behaviour: ~/.xsession-errors remains a symlink, and the target file /tmp/xe is truncated for the new session.
description: | updated |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in gdm: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in lucid-backports: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
tags: | added: testcase |
Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in lightdm: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Customer request to also backport the fix to 10.04 LTS.