[xubuntu-users] Hundreds (thousands maybe) of nm-applet error messages in .xsession-errors

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 02:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 21:22 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have recently upgraded from xubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 on my laptop.
> > 
> > The .xsession-errors file is getting rather large very quickly, it has
> > grown to 8Mb in not much over 24 hours.  A large proportion of the
> > errors in .xsession-errors are from nm-applet:-
> > 
> >     (nm-applet:1573): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 20:15:43.847: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> >     (nm-applet:1573): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 20:15:43.847: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> >     (nm-applet:1573): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:15:43.858: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent
> > 
> > The same three errors repeat, a lot!  There are also similar Gtk error
> > messages from other programs but nm-applet is by far the worst culprit.
> > 
> > I know these aren't that serious, the system still functions OK, but
> > at the very least they tend to mask more serious issues by making
> > .xsession-errors so large.
> > 
> > Is this a bug that should be reported and/or is there a work-around of
> > any sort?
> 
> It's a rhetorical question, right?
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat .xsession-errors | wc -l
> 5
> 
> One of those four lines is caused by an obsolete workaround, the other
               ^^^^ five :D
> four lines are related to either bad maintained packages or issues
> caused by upstream.
> 
> The total size are 248 byte.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hl .xsession-errors 
> -rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 248 Dec  2 17:42 .xsession-errors
> 
> To put it in a nutshell, those 248 bytes are already way to much,
> however, getting 8 MB mostly related to GTK warnings is inacceptable.
> It's not your fault. Consider to report it. You could temporarily work
> around it by simply deleting  ~/.xsession-errors*  , after starting a
> user session. During this session no ~/.xsession-errors log file will be
> generated again.