This bug locked me out of a server running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64-bit with the latest updates as of 3/28/2013. I only access this server via its freenx/ssh daemons. I discovered the insane disk usage by .xsession-errors.old after my nx client couldn't get past "Authenticated" during the login process. Logging in via the console, I was able to reboot the system twice, which cleared the file. This bug is still in the wild, performing DOS attacks on unsuspecting sysadmins.
I don't want to lose the log file in case it's needed for debugging. But can we please keep it from getting this big in the future?
This bug locked me out of a server running Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop 64-bit with the latest updates as of 3/28/2013. I only access this server via its freenx/ssh daemons. I discovered the insane disk usage by .xsession- errors. old after my nx client couldn't get past "Authenticated" during the login process. Logging in via the console, I was able to reboot the system twice, which cleared the file. This bug is still in the wild, performing DOS attacks on unsuspecting sysadmins.
I don't want to lose the log file in case it's needed for debugging. But can we please keep it from getting this big in the future?