talk about errors batman

[mcovey]

anyone want to answer my simple question: wtf?

I couldnt download ANYTHING to my $home
so i do some investigationg
"du -hs /home/aries"
looks fine

"du -hs /home/aries/.*"

HOLY CRAP .xession-errors is 8 and a half freaking gigs!!!"

What the crap is wrong with this. What might be causing these and how do I tell it to stop logging these errors because x works fine and i dont care to see these errors... they are hogging disk space like a mofo!

dayum that is still amazing me. never had problems like this with other installs. this install is about 2-3 months old, running debian sarge, uptime avg is about 2 weeks (for the life of the machine, not just last 2-3 mos)... wheeeeew

[cpugeniusmv]

Not much anyone can help you with without the error messages.

Next time it gets up to a few megs, gzip it and post it. Or if you just don't care, make a symlink called .xsession-errors that points to /dev/null.

[mcovey]

it hasnt been recreated yet. i rebooted the machine last night though. I think I will see if it happens again, and if it does I'll check it out, and if I can't solve it then post the file.

seriously... 8GB of errors. It's a fricken text file!
if I gzipped it and it went down to a few kb, then I'd know something was up.

[Julian]

It prob said something like "blah needs to be set to root" so when you find that then set the owner as root. ;)

[crackerjacker]

It prob said something like "blah needs to be set to root" so when you find that then set the owner as root. ;)

ok i will in your computer
not like i havent already
bye

[zpman]

Is the thumbnail your error message? the . in front of the filename indicates hidden folders in your home folder. Did you make home on a sepearate partion from /? This you might want to specify. Get back.