HUGE .xsession-error file

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

> The hidden file, .xsession-errors in /home gets absolutely HUGE. I
> don't know why I'm getting so many errors, but they never seem to
> affect anything. After a few months it filled up over 9GB of
> my /home. I can delete it and it starts filling up again immediately,
> with all kinds of garbage. Within a few days it's 60MB big.

Instead of deleting it, it would be good to find out why it is growing so 
fast and fix that problem instead.

What does this tell you?

sort ~/.xsession-errors | uniq -c | sort -n | tail


  Jeremy C. Reed

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