I haven't purposely installed an -dbg packages, or redirected any messages. I think the inconvenience of using a terminal emulator to open all my apps would be too much. The most common messages appear to be from "zeitgeist-datahub" and "gnome-shell". E.g.: Jul 17 12:36:01 echo gnome-session[2808]: (zeitgeist-datahub:2989): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_recent_info_get_application_info: assertion 'app_name != NULL' failed <snip> Jul 17 12:39:15 echo gnome-session[2808]: (gnome-shell:2943): mutter-WARNING **: STACK_OP_RAISE_ABOVE: window 0x710 1200016 not in stack Seems like usually the exact same message gets repeated 50 times in 10 seconds or so. On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 19:21 -0400, Carol Spears wrote:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Christopher Howard
<christopher alaskasi com> wrote:
Hi, I have a Gnome 3 desktop running on Debian Jessie.
My /var/log/messages keeps blowing up to over 8 GB. When I
study the
log, it looks like about 95% of the messages are Gnome
debugging
messages. A lot of that 95% are debug messages from various
apps using
glib or gtk, and a lot of it is Gnome Shell warnings repeated
thousands
of times.
I've heard of ways to put a limit on the log size, but what I
really
want to do is reduce a lot of that Gnome debug "clutter" so
only the
smaller set of important messages are in the log. Is there
some global
Gnome option somewhere that reduces the logging level for all
Gnome-based programs? That would be the ideal solution, I
think.
Alternatively, if I could figure out an easy way to redirect
those Gnome
messages elsewhere, that might be sufficient.
Are you *sure* it's gnome? Perhaps you need to reinstall but this
time not choose the software with '-dbg' in its name.
Maybe, the messages have already been redirected and the kernel is
getting a lot more chatter than it needs.
Good luck with that! Opening things up in a terminal emulator might
direct the messages to you to read.
Carol
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