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[Todd Allen <toddmallen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can confirm this issue is not fixed (or at least not in all cases). I
just had my disk fill up overnight with endless repetitions of the
following:

(Pidgin:21050): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_poll_write_control: assertion
`set != NULL' failed

todd@europa:~$ ls -lh .xsession*
-rw------- 1 todd todd 311G 2011-05-26 08:52 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 todd todd 232K 2011-05-15 00:09 .xsession-errors.old

Certainly, this is due to a misbehaving app, which in this case appears
to be Pidgin, and I'll report this there as well. But would it not be
possible to limit the size of an error log file, "rolling off" old
entries after the size limit is reached? I'd much rather see that
behavior than the disk filling up.

If it would be better to file a new bug for this particular issue,
please let me know. However, I think a permanent fix (a size limit)
would be a much better idea than fixing individual cases of things that
fill up the disk space. I can fix it for now by replacing .xsession-
errors with a symlink to /dev/null, but that's a pretty ugly kludge.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589275

Title:
  client application error messages fill up disk in .xsession-errors