[Bug 2051838] [NEW] /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send

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GDM, or more specifically is flooding systemd journal and
/var/log/syslog via rsyslogd with gigabytes of the following messages:

Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]:  :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]:  :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]:  :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]:  :
Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send


I noticed the problem when I started to run out of disk because /var/log/syslog was consuming more than 400GiB. I noticed that rsyslogd starts to consume a lot of CPU trying to process such volume of messages.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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/usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send
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