Description of problem: gnome-packagekit prints way too many debug info to ~/.xsession-errors. A user of the F14 LXDE spin reported a file of 25 GB and most of this is from gpk-update-icon and gpk-application. I'm seeing the same, but not that bad because this installation is still young. $ ls -lh .xsession-errors -rw-------. 1 chris chris 13M 9. Jan 23:32 .xsession-errors [chris@denkermatic ~]$ cat .xsession-errors | wc -l 153988 [chris@denkermatic ~]$ grep PackageKit-DEBUG .xsession-errors | wc -l 128402 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-2.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: always
Isn't .xsession-errors meant to be cleared before every logon? Mine is 76k in size. The tons of debugging might actually be a repeated warning, it would be interesting to see what the rough contents of the .xsession-errors is. That said, most of the debugging from PackageKit-glib is pretty lowlevel, and decreases the SNR of the .xsession-errors by a large part. I've fixed that in the following commit: commit 13bce887c16f4ade215c354ff69c3714a787cacc Author: Richard Hughes <richard> Date: Mon Jan 10 09:29:03 2011 +0000 glib: avoid spamming lots of low level debugging to .xsession-errors. Fixes rh#668303
Thanks for your quick feedback. I'm not sure if .xsession-errors is supposed to be cleared on login and I cannot try since I have too many things open to restart my session. I am one of the people who use standby all the time and not log in for weeks, so I appreciate that you turned of the debugging stuff. I found but 495190 which is related to this issue but does not include a clear statement whether or not the file should be cleared regularly.
It's good to see a patch that clears this issue up, but until the patch makes its way into a Fedora package in updates, what should we do to prevent this from happening? Over one single night, my .xsession-errors file grew to be 296GB: -rw-------. 1 pmyers users 296G Jan 13 21:14 .xsession-errors And this completely filled up my /home filesystem Without a package to fix the issue, I fear the only way to make the system usable is to remove PackageKit and then reinstall when a fixed version is available. Any other suggestions?
Doing a bit more digging, what was filling up my .xsession-errors file was not PackageKit DEBUG messages but instead PackageKit Warnings. And the trigger in this case had to do with using synergy. Not sure what caused synergy to trigger this, but once I killed the synergys process the .xsession-errors file stopped being spammed.
Created attachment 474731 [details] Half a day's worth of PackageKit messages, gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-2.fc14.i686 I'm attaching about half a day's worth of PackageKit messages. They are mostly DEBUG level, but with some WARNING (probably from when this netbook was offline after waking from sleep). This is with gnome-packagekit-2.32.0-2.fc14.i686.
Richard, it this supposed to be in Fedora already? Starting gpk-update-viewer in F15 with all updates I still see tons of DEBUG messages.
Same for gkp-log. Can we get this fixed before F15?
In F15 Beta RC2 I the following apps still have debug output enabled: gpk-log gpk-update-viewer gpk-prefs Can we please have this fixed before GA?
Any idea when this will be fixed? The amount of debug out put is still enormous in gnome-packagekit-3.0.0-5.fc15.
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