Comment 0 for bug 771661

Binary package hint: gdm

Bug 60448 discusses the problem about ~/.xsession-errors growing unbearably large when there are buggy programs spamming it. One remedy is to allow ~/.xsession-errors to be a symlink to e. g. /dev/null or a local file, so that you can at least avoid network contention if ~ is on NFS.

spm sent a first patch for this (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/70203386/gdm-session-worker.c.diff). This should be cleaned up to use g_file_test() and reported upstream.