Bug 986772 - clutter is spamming my /var/log/messages with huge numbers of "Clutter-CRITICAL" errors
Summary: clutter is spamming my /var/log/messages with huge numbers of "Clutter-CRITIC...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 982550
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cinnamon
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: leigh scott
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-22 04:39 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2013-08-19 16:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-19 16:09:01 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2013-07-22 04:39:29 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Tibbs Brookside 2013-08-19 15:23:23 UTC
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

Comment 2 leigh scott 2013-08-19 16:09:01 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 982550 ***

Comment 3 leigh scott 2013-08-19 16:11:07 UTC
I don't have any clutter warnings here.

[leigh@main-pc ~]$ journalctl -b | grep Clutter-CRITICAL | wc -l
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