replaces ~/.xsession-errors fifo with plain file

[András Korn]

Binary package hint: gdm

Hi,

I'd like to have a ~/.xsession-errors FIFO which an svlogd(8) (from the
runit package) process reads from. This has the advantage of providing
timestamped, automatically rotated logs.

While I can modify the /etc/X11/Xsession script to leave my fifo alone,
gdm itself seems to replace it with a plain file no matter what I do.

Maybe gdm could be patched to only create/truncate the .xsession-errors
file if it doesn't exist or is a plain file? Surely, users who create a fifo there
can be assumed to know what they are doing (and thus to know where to
look if gdm blocks on trying to write to the fifo).

Andras

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[András Korn (kornandras)]

I also submitted this issue to the gnome bugtracker as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493737

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. No need to send upstream request on launchpad if you already opened a bug upstream though

[András Korn (kornandras)]

I opened the launchpad bug first, and then thought that this doesn't only affect Ubuntu users, so why not report it upstream as well... But you're right, I'll try to avoid such duplicates in the future.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in lucid?

[András Korn (kornandras)]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:29:30PM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

> could you try if that's still an issue in lucid?

I suppose so. I'll report back in a couple of days.

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[András Korn (kornandras)]

Yes. gdm version 2.30.5-0ubuntu3 still has the same problem.