Just today I started getting notices about lack of disk space on my system. After much digging I found that .xsession-errors and .xsession-errors.old were taking nearly 70GB of space combined. The primary message I'm getting over and over again is: SSL_Write: I/O Error I have been unable to figure out what's causing this error.
View 3 RepliesI delete the file and within about a week i am back to a "out of space error" I have tried root owning the file with no permission to write, but it still gets written, just with a number on the end
the system appears to be working fine otherwise. I could set a cron remove but that seems a bit more hacky than telling it to shut up.
I have had a few X crashes and started to suspect compiz as they usually happened when I was resizing a window or the window was wobbling.
Here is the Xsession-errors log (it's a hidden file in your home folder). It mentions:
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WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
Starting gtk-window-decorator
Unable to find a synaptics device.
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I get the following messages while starting up. This also delays my desktop initialisation.
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/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_GB.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
/usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
xrdb: "Xft.hinting" on line 9 overrides entry on line 6
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If I run in terminal tail -f .xsession-errors while my system initialises, I see these messages appearing every 5 sec.
Every time I boot 10.04 on my laptop, the file ~/.xsession-errors is created.
I post here the content of my ~/.xsession-errors and the output of dmesg:
NB: I'm running 10.04 on a Dell laptop m101z.
~/.xsession-errors:
with slackware 13.0 for one user xfce4 hangs and doesn't start..xsession.errors claim it can't open display. It works fine for other users. Also if I access the machine in question as the same user but remotely using remote X (X-terminal on my LAN) it works fine.Sometimes if I wait and count to 30 it comes up but a lot of the features don't work.During the last week have posted this question on the compuserve linux forum and also in the xfce site forum with no solutions.seems there must be something in that user's directory which is hanging it up. I keep the same /home/users directory on a separate partition so when I upgrade for new versions of slackware the /home/users remain the same - I symlink home to that partition so upgrades are somewhat seemless.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have had this happening off and on, since I moved to Ubuntu 10.04, via clean install. I did pick EXT4, which is the only difference I can think of.
What happens is, 3 of my log files suddenly start filling fast with "Unknown" errors. The three files are kern.log messages and syslog. All three files will have about the same measurement of size. It can take a few weeks or it can speed along fairly fast and use up my free space of 6 GB. For instance, today, I blanked the three files and within the space of about 4 hours they grew to almost 2 GB each! I blanked them again and rebooted, and in 3 hours they only grew to 5 MB each.
Below is a sample which shows where the "unknown" errors start. The first such error is in BOLD so that it is easy to find. Once they start happening there is little else printed in the logs. Does anyone know how to track down what is happening and fix this?
Dec 1 22:11:05 ispy kernel: [ 26.553797] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 210x65
Dec 1 22:11:05 ispy kernel: [ 26.653060] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2414 chip found (MAC: 0x79, PHY: 0x45)
Dec 1 22:11:05 ispy kernel: [ 26.653088] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: CO
Dec 1 22:11:05 ispy kernel: [ 26.654314] au8830 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0104 -> 0107)
Dec 1 22:11:05 ispy kernel: [ 26.654346] au8830 0000:00:10.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
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so what i did first was obviously use wubi to download and install ubuntu. after a 14 minute download, i was finally ready to proceed with the installation. i was excited, however, little did i know the installation would soon be a complete train wreck with little children aboard.here i am, sitting down, rebooting my LAPTOP computer (Acer Aspire 5336, Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU - 900 @ 2.20 GHz 2.19 GHz, 3.00GB RAM, 64-bit operating system -- bought it at walmart because my desktop is still at my parent's house),and then i choose to boot up ubuntu instead of windows 7. everything looks like it goes fine so far.
there were a few errors but it went by so fast i could only read the "error" part. i wait for the installation thingy to show, but it doesn't! the screen goes completely blank after a few more words show up and disappear all in a blink of an eye, so i wait a very long time. it shows a purple screen, and asks me to choose a boot thing or w/e. i choose linux (there were other options like windows 7, linux recovery, i forgot the rest), then it just restarts the computer and i choose ubuntu and it does it again, however it never shows the purple screen!
My wireless seems to be fast for a good 30secs then bang takes good while to load the next page almost as if it's disconnecting and then reconnecting/scanning reconnecting. Why cant it stay connected. I have WAP PSK security here is my network setting please let me know if I should change any of them:(side not is there a way to fix this problem occuring so frequently it says on the wiki that it should only occur once in a whilce https:[url].....
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded to 10.04, but I'll be darned if I can get GDM to run my personal .Xsession (or .xsession or .xinitrc or.Xclients...) when I log in. I don't see any option on the session menu. The only entries are window managers and "xterm". My script works when I log in from the console. don't tell me that Ubuntu (or GDM) has made things simpler by taking away the option of a .Xsession! Nah, couldn't be.
View 5 Replies View RelatedInstalling 11.2 from KDE LiveCD on an IBM ThinkCenter with 3.2Gb CPU and 1Gb RAM. Ubuntu 9.04 on first two partitions. I go through the configuration, click to 'install': Install display bars remain blank. After 2-3 minutes, black screen with scroll of attempted installation pieces and the error message: "Respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 min." Freeze.
Other posts mention problem with init. But this is happening with the install so not able to address that. No apparent md5chksum for LiveCDs. No mention of this problem in installation help guide. Does anyone know how to deal with this? If you need more info, I will provide. Though it seems this is not an unusual problem when booting an installed system, there's no mention of it happening during installation.
My problem is, when I start my custom xsession through startx I get almost ideal results; the network manager requires a password every time. But when it is run through gdm I cannot use any of the awesome3 hotkeys (and so alas, cannot actually do _anything_) although the wireless does connect automatically (?).
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Normally you can put your xrandr command in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup to change resolution before login. This does not work for openSUSE. Why, where else ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a pre-printed form that I need to fill in. Is it possible to scan it, fill it in on screen, and then put the original form in the printer and get things to print out on that original form? I know that I can scan the form and fill it in on screen and print out on a blank piece of paper, but I need to use the original form
View 9 Replies View RelatedFor a while my root partition has been filling up for no apparent reason. I I have been deleting things to find out it fills up again in a mater of days. To make it more 'interesting', there is a disparity between what I get from df and what the du command is telling me. After dismounting the other file systems and turning off applications, this is what i get:
output of df -ha
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdf5 69G 66G 54M 100% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
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du claims that I'm using 29G on that partition, which sounds about right (this is my OS and basic /home partition, everything else is elsewhere). df on the other hand is telling me here that out of 69G, 64G are in use with only 54M left.
I'm trying to export a variable from within the .xsession so it will be available to any application started afterwards.
Here is a minimial .xsession file:
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export MYVAR=123
exec gnome-session
The problem is that when I start a terminal and do:
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echo $MYVAR
I get an empty string, meaning it's undefined.
Installed 10.10 Ubuntu and found the Dell D820 did not digest Gnome that easily. I tried adding Lubuntu from repos after adding PPA. Seemed unstable to use, so I followed Psychocat direction for Pure LXDE and removed Ubuntu. Now login is giving error "xsession:unable to launc "openbox-gnome" X Session --- "openbox-gnome" not found; falling back to defaultsession." Where do I correct the xsession login to allow auto login. (I know the chances for autologin, and still choose to use it)
View 7 Replies View RelatedIm trying to create a custom xsession on Ubuntu 10.04 that will launch nxclient and logout automatically when it closes.
This is what I have so far
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How would I go about altering this script to logout when nxclient closes? To make this more complicated, nxclient spawns a separate process (nxssh) when it logs in and closes itself.
Is it possible for a script to listen for a child process to close and then execute some commands (in this case a logout)?
I am relatively new to ubuntu/linux and although I have made some good progress on my server I'm struggling with a few points. I am sure what I'm about to ask has been covered in some other thread/guide but I just cant pick out the missing piece hence my direct question;I have 2 computers; a server and mediacenter.on the server I have installed nfs:
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sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap
then
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Some of my cronjobs are filling up files in my / directory. How do I make this stop? One of my cron jobs uses wget:[URL].. The bexcb0.php file writes a file and then echos a result if it is sucsesfull. These echo results are being put into bexcb0.php files in my /root folder and are piling up.
My / folder is filling up with files bexcb0.php etc bexcb0.php bexcb0.php.1 bexcb0.php.2 bexcb0.php.3 bexcb0.php.4 bexcb0.php.5 etc How do I make this stop? If I just remove the echo will they stop writing to the / folder?
I am using my ubuntu server as my home router.Everything is working as expected with one exception.y DSL modem is a POS and every now and again it looses connection to the router. Sometimes it needs to be reset and sometimes it does not.Either way, when this happens my ubuntu server needs to reacquire an IP from my ISP. If it screws up when I'm at home it's no big deal, but if it happens when I'm not around my housemates have taken to hitting the reset switch on the server. I'm not a big fan of this so I wrote a script to ping my ISP's gateway. If it's unavailable it bounces the eth0 interface and tries to get an IP. I am running this script every couple of minutes in a cron job. Now I'm getting syslog entries like
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Aug 9 20:31:01 portal CRON[9602]: (root) CMD (/opt/ChkAndFixNetwork.sh)
every few minutes. This is annoying and makes the logs useless for troubleshooting. I
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I'm trying to control my media center via my netbook
but when I ssh into the machine and do
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So I guess the ssh session is trying to start an x session. Obviously I don't want another session but instead use the existing x session that the machine runs anyway (and on which Rhythmbox runs)
googling I found a similar bug for f12 but no solution or fix or anything...
sorry if this is such a noob question. I've never dealt with xsessions in that way...
I've just install SUSE 11.3. GNOME and KDE are selected as GUI session.At the login screen, in Session list I saw TWM, and after selected it as login session I couldnt login, and login screen disappear as well. It shows a black screen and the mouse pointer, and I have no idea how to switch to KDE or GNOME since no login screen.
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Message "xsession login to root disable".
my mouse is not being seen so I need to log in without the xsession autostarting to get a cmd line login.
my account will not let me login with my passd so the console is my only access with root but i cannot do anything withourt a mouse.
1. How can i get logged in?
2. How can I stop xsession from autostarting on a reboot once i get loged in i can try to remove that setting and boot the box.
3. secure session lets me in but the xterm is not active so I cannot type any commands.
My filesystem is almost full and the problem is in the proc folder.What does that folder contain and can I delete something from it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen building 8.04 servers, I reconfigure snmpd's logging options to prevent copious low priority messages being logged whenever our network management workstation polls them. I edit /etc/default/snmpd and change line 11 from:
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SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null ...'
to:
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I have a number of servers I manage, and one of them is archiving old data that is never modified on a separate partition. This partition is at 100% capacity. A friend of mine says this is an unsafe way to keep this partition, even tho I don't plan to add any more data to it or change anything within. I know I can archive the data to dvd, but I'd like to keep the data online for my users.
What are your opinions on this? Can I keep this archive partition at 100% capacity? Or do I risk some sort of data corruption? Should I mount this partition as read-only to help prevent any corruption?
I noticed the xsession-error file in my main user's home folder grow up to a big size, it's usually at 2-3MB sometimes up to 20MB. I use Fedora 10 64bit and KDE4.2. I got no problems at all and the xsession-error logfile is full of weird entrys, almost everything is reporting to it, mplayer, xine, opera, firefox, dolphin and many other software I use. I don't think the most of these entrys are real and critical system errors, especially all the mplayer stuff. However, I'm not worried about the file size since Fedora 10 seems to delete the file on every log in.
My problem is the disc access because all this never ending writings to hard disc kinda break things like the mount options noatime, nodiratime. I read something about you can redirect the logfile to /dev/null but that was for an ubunto distribution and I would like to get a how to for a save way to disable the xsession-error logfile, I got 8GB RAM so everything is in cache anyway after a long session, I really want to get rid of unnessesary hard disc access like that. If not recommend to disable it, can I direct it to an usb stick or ssd?
I need to install in my centos 5.3 a remote sesion login like a Terminal Server on Windows. I tried to use a VNC but I have a problem and it is that the user must be loged before on local machine. I need to can wake on lan my server and log in with that program.
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