6.2.1 .xsession-errors

[utu]

@ mecho

Nice response. Sorry I can't help out on alsa, I'm not up on that.
I like your solution with gconftool-2, since it solves the problem.
I'm not in favor of trashing the errors altogether, and have run across an altertative which saves the
latest info, just not the whole history. It goes as follows:

Knoppix 6.2.1 keeps a running log of .xsession-errors.
Current era Ubuntus only keep current and one old session of these.
The difference (in the current log) is only character in /etc/X11/Xsessions.

Quoting from https://bugs.launchpad.net/+source/gdm/+bug60448

(concerning how to revert FROM (keeping all previous .xsession-errors
and adding that from the current boot) TO (just keeping the
.xsession-errors for the current boot).

Look very closely. The _only_ edit is the deletion of one '>';
that is '>' instead of '>>' at line 94 (or nearby, anyway).

QUOTE ***********

Lea GRIS wrote on 2006-09-21: #3

* Revert to previous overwrite behaviour (310 bytes, text/plain)

The offending code is in /etc/X11/Xsession

Some updates ago, code was changed to increment .xsession-errors instead of overwrite it.

/etc/X11/Xsession line 94:
exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1

Change it back to:
exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1

I think reverting to the previous overwrite behaviour would be a good enough choice.

This bug affect any Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu
Offending package:
xinit

UNQUOTE ************

This might be timely advice even now for Knoppix 6.2.1;
I do not favor dumping _all_ the evidence in the trash, because these
errors indicate something's not right.
Hopefully it doesn't matter, but who knows?

[utu]

quoted link should be:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...gdm/+bug/60448

my bad.

[mecho]

Thanks a lot utu - very good tip. I don't really need to have the errors from my previous sessions. I found exec >>"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 at line 77 in knoppix 6.2. I was thinking of making a small script to delete xsession-errors at shut down since it's automatically recreated at boot, but this is much more elegant solution. Perfect

[utu]

@mecho

Most welcome. There are some other ideas in the Bug 60448 thread you may enjoy.

Relative to the Bug 60448 mentioned earlier, the whole thread there is interesting, and still open.
I especially enjoyed posts there #'s 40, 41, 47 and 49.

[utu]

So here's one type, representing 3/4 of my .xsession-errors:

(firefox-bin:####): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

The four digits #### are not always the same.

This occurs using iceweasel 3.5.6-1 with Shockwave Flash Plug-in 10.1r53.

Disabling this plug-in makes these errors stop. Re-enabling and going to
nytimes site, for example makes the errors begin again.

I'm unaware of what, if any performance is not correct.

Disabling compiz and/or java have no effect I'm aware of.

Constructive comments welcome here.
Also, would like to confirm version numbers are standard for Knoppix 6.2.1.

[krishna.murphy]

So here's one type, representing 3/4 of my .xsession-errors:

(firefox-bin:####): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

The four digits #### are not always the same.

This occurs using iceweasel 3.5.6-1 with Shockwave Flash Plug-in 10.1r53.

Disabling this plug-in makes these errors stop. Re-enabling and going to
nytimes site, for example makes the errors begin again.

I'm unaware of what, if any performance is not correct.

Disabling compiz and/or java have no effect I'm aware of.

Constructive comments welcome here.
Also, would like to confirm version numbers are standard for Knoppix 6.2.1.

[rant]This basically was what Steve Jobs was talking about re: Adobe Flash being "the number one reason Macs crash." Well, at least it's just error messages going into a logfile that can be handled (variously, as others have described) without a crash at all. I've tried Gnash, the open-source replacement for Flash, and it's bad - really bad. Now that HTML-5 native video is on the horizon, perhaps we can all move on to a future without mucn need for Flash as such, except perhaps in transcoding to the new format.[/rant]

Cheers!
Krishna