.xsession-error file getting large?

[john wendel]

On 01/09/2011 10:26 AM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> On 01/09/11 07:28, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2011 at 9:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> Subject:        	Re: .xsession-error file getting large?
>> From:           	Patrick O'Callaghan<pocallaghan at gmail.com>
>> To:             	users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Date sent:      	Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:27:54 -0430
>>
>>> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 23:21 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>>>> Found that .xsession-error file had somehow grown to over 2GB.
>>>> Found a large number of lines linked to Package kit update applet, so have
>>>> disable it.
>>>>
>>>> Noticed that used space on / had gone from normal 14GB used size to
>>>> 16GB. Didn't quickly find where the space was until using the option to list
>>>> the . files. Haven't noticed this in the past, so wondering if others have seen
>>>> this?
>>>
>>> Mine is under 1MB. You may have a problem with your X configuration
>>> and .xsession-errors is trying to tell you about it.
>>
>> At the moment my .xsession-error file is 3889 bytes in size. Checked some
>> other machines, and they also had the large number of lines about the gpk-
>> update-icon.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> poc
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> my .xsession-errors file is 14157 lines long of which 13571 lines are
> debug messages from gpk-update-icon.
>
> Paolo

"yum remove PackageKit" worked for me.

John