Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 986772
clutter is spamming my /var/log/messages with huge numbers of "Clutter-CRITICAL" errors
Last modified: 2013-08-19 12:11:55 EDT
Cinnamon is spamming my X session logs, and therefore /var/log/messages, with huge numbers of log entries like this: Jul 21 01:18:01 jik2 /etc/gdm/Xsession[11774]: (cinnamon:12009): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_editable: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed Jul 21 01:18:01 jik2 /etc/gdm/Xsession[11774]: (cinnamon:12009): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed Jul 21 01:18:01 jik2 /etc/gdm/Xsession[11774]: (cinnamon:12009): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_set_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed These repeat over and over. When I say "huge", I mean like to the tune of 21MB of log messages per hour, which is a hefty amount of disk space to be wasting, not to mention impacting my performance because of all the CPU and disk I/O required to process these log messages. Once it starts, it doesn't seem to stop until I log out and log back in. I have no idea what causes it to start happening.
just to say that i'm seeing the same thing on f19 with all the latest updates. i'm also experiencing the momentary freezes as reported in: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=218&t=127603
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 982550 ***
I don't have any clutter warnings here. [leigh@main-pc ~]$ journalctl -b | grep Clutter-CRITICAL | wc -l 0