Bug 19033
| Summary: | XFree86 4.0.1 creates large logfiles | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | dxw |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Mike A. Harris <mharris> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-04-06 23:54:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Does the problem go away if you upgrade to the newest rawhide release of XFRee86-4.0.3-5? I don't see a problem here with my XFree86. Logfiles are not overly large. Additionally truetype fonts work just fine with xfs in 4.0.1, 4.0.3 for me. |
The extmod module keeps putting the following in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1328 hend: 1440 httl: 1688 vdsp: 1024 vbeg: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1066 flags: 5 This happens once at startup, and continually while xscreensaver is active. This has twice run my system out of disk space by increasing the size of the log file by over 150M while the screen saver is on overnight. I think it may also have something to do with me using the internal font rendering modules instead of the font server (TrueType fonts refuse to render when using the font server, XFree86 handles them). Current XFree86 4.0.1 modules list from XF86Config-4: Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "v4l" Load "speedo" Load "type1" # Load "xtt" Load "freetype" Load "bitmap" EndSection If xtt is active, instead of freetype, the log file increases more rapidly due to this module reloading encodings modules all the time. The reloading gets logged. I have eliminated the problem for now by changing the X server line in gdm.conf file: 0=/usr/bin/X11/X -logfile /dev/null Please note, I never had this problem with RH6.1 + XFree86 4.0.1 that I compiled myself. The log files always remained at a reasonable size.