[kde] [Bug 325889] New: Metabug to reduce unnecessary/wrong output to the .xsesson-errors file
Michael
gen.9.madblock at spamgourmet.com
Fri Oct 11 13:25:14 BST 2013
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325889
Bug ID: 325889
Summary: Metabug to reduce unnecessary/wrong output to the
.xsesson-errors file
Classification: Unclassified
Product: kde
Version: 4.11.2
Platform: unspecified
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
Reporter: gen.9.madblock at spamgourmet.com
Alot of KDE components produce a vast ammount of debug output that is written
to .xsession-errors. This does not only cause unnecessary IO but also decreases
performance, battery life, ssd life and in extreme cases causes multi-gigabye
logfiles for some users. Googling for '.xsession-errors' reveals that a lot of
users notice this file in a negative way while there are little actual issues
solved by providing information from this file. Usually dedicated logfiles or
the output from a run on the console is used to find issues.
Even using kdebug to disable debug messages, some components still produce a a
lot of output. There are previously reported bug, some that have no been
addressed for several years. I hope it is not bad as a non-kde-dev to create
this metabug that depends on the currently open bugs regarding this issue.
Most of these components should only log really ciritcal stuff - any other
errors/issues should be enabled on-demand by running the application with
--debug or something like this.
Reproducible: Always
Expected Results:
.xession-errors should only provide first-hint informations if randomly
X-applications crash or encounter other critical issues.
For regular debugging programs are usually invoked on a separate console and
debugged in other ways.
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