HUGE .xsession-error file

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Monday 15 August 2005 09:37 am Jeremy C. Reed kindly wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > tigerflag at localhost:~$ sort ~/.xsession-errors | uniq -c | sort
> > -n | tail
> >      6 Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> >      6 Opener: received RemoveSecret
> >      8 Opener: received OpenResolv
> >     10 kdecore (KAction): WARNING:
> > KActionCollection::KActionCollection( QObject *parent, const char
> > *name, KInstance *instance )
> >     14 Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> >     24 kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
> >     28 QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
> >     57 konqueror: ERROR: Error in
> > BrowserExtension::actionSlotMap(), unknown action :
> > searchProvider
> >    126 QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key
> >    689 appending message to ~/dead.letter.tmp
>
> Nothing there to explain why the file is getting to a gigabyte in
> size -- unless you just deleted it.
>
> I do wonder why it has the last message 689 times though. I am not
> sure what that is for, but maybe it means you started to compose a
> message and then canceled it 689 times.
>
> Maybe wait until tomorrow or when it is large again and try that
> again to see what lines are logged a lot.
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
>
Thanks, Jeremy. I did delete it yesterday. Right now it's only 46.3 
KB, which is smaller than I've seen it in a long time. Something 
writes to the file almost constantly. Lines repeat themselves 
hundreds of times, like what you see here. I _haven't_ deleted a 
message 689 times!

Siri Amrit