[Mageia-dev] Disable GTK/GLIB error messages - .xsession-errors overflooded

Sat Sep 3 21:09:22 CEST 2011

Am 03.09.2011 20:53, schrieb Olav Vitters:
+> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 07:47:55PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
+>> Am 03.09.2011 18:25, schrieb Olav Vitters:
+>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
+>>>> Seems those are not considered a bug:
+>>>> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50252
+>>>> I'll check again with a local rebuild of transmission-2.33.
+>>> I don't agree to that, it should always be reported. But suggest
+>>> reporting these directly (https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ has a "report
+>>> a problem" section).
+>>>
+>>> Though it is really strange it doesn't occur for me at all.
+>> You can't compare apples to bananas, cauldron is like another distribution.
+> You're using Mageia 1 then? I didn't know (assume -dev = Cauldron
+> people),
+Yes, citing original mail:
+
+    /just recently i noticed that my .xsession-errors on Mageia 1 has grown
+    quite a bit/
+
+Guessed this list is suited better for technical stuff than -discuss.
+
+
+> but the bugreport is from 2009, so it should've been fixed
+> already in Mageia 1. In any case, such error messages are not just for
+> informational purposes; they might not cause user visible problems, but
+> they do indicate a programming error.
+Well, i'm more like: If there is an error message, but no real error to it, 
+don't really care.
+>
+>> Also you read the comments from the Mandriva developers, especially
+>> from Goetz Waschk, GNOME maintainer for Mandriva?
+> Yes, I know who he is as well as others who replied. Anyway, it appears
+> he understands the cause and that it won't have impact. So there still
+> is a bug (comment 3). I'm guessing it is a theme engine causing this
+> though (in which case you won't notice in Cauldron), not anything in
+> gtk+ or transmission.
+So far there is no real problem, but i don't want to ignore the sheer mass of 
+error messages.
+>
+>> If the problem persists with 2.33, i'll report that upstream.
+> Thanks, also check with a different theme if you could.
+Maybe also check without existing settings as i imported them from my 2010.1 
+installation.
+
+