Very Computer

I discovered rencently that multiple instances of the kdeinit process
fills up one of my file system.

I found out that the file "xsess-bart" (bart being my user name) in
/var/tmp grows rapidly like crazy until I kill the top kdeinit process.
And I'm talking here about megs per few seconds! I absolutely need to
kill this b**** before it fills up my file system entirely.

Moreover, when I delete the file, the file system does not reset its
remaining-bytes size to its initial value until I restart the system.
Where again I have to kill the top kdeinit, and so on...

I coud see that the "xsess-bart" has the following content:

Running update-menus...done
DCOPServer up and running.
Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured

QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
... (for megabytes long!)
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
QMenuData::removeItem: Index -1 out of range
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-6109' to 'klipper'
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!

This "Can't get host name" at the beginning is annoying me because when
I do "hostname" on the shell, it displays it. However, when I try the
short version (-s), it answers "hostname: Unknown host" after few
seconds.

I must say, I could never really setup this host name conveniently with
my Mandrake 8.1 .

If someone may help me out on this, I would appreciate.

Thanks.

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It's actually all debug output from all X applications.

Quote:> I found out that the file "xsess-bart" (bart being my user name) in
> /var/tmp grows rapidly like crazy until I kill the top kdeinit
> process. And I'm talking here about megs per few seconds! I absolutely
> need to kill this b**** before it fills up my file system entirely.

> Moreover, when I delete the file, the file system does not reset its
> remaining-bytes size to its initial value until I restart the system.

Deleting a file doesn't remove it until the last process that has it
open closes.  That's normal UNIX behaviour, which is why you can't
delete the file to free the space while it's running.

Quote:> Where again I have to kill the top kdeinit, and so on...

> I coud see that the "xsess-bart" has the following content:

  I can't off the top of my head think how to turn it off (indeed, I
don't have one), but in your situation before now, I've done 'ln -s
/dev/null ~/.xsession-errors' or for you .xsess-bart I suppose.  The
debug output will still be coming, but I don't know

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Quote:> This "Can't get host name" at the beginning is annoying me because
> when I do "hostname" on the shell, it displays it. However, when I try
> the short version (-s), it answers "hostname: Unknown host" after few
> seconds.

> I must say, I could never really setup this host name conveniently
> with my Mandrake 8.1 .

Normally I'd say edit /etc/hosts, but I guess Mandrake has some special
tool you need to use to do system administration.

After the line that says something like this:
127.0.0.1       localhost  localhost.localdomain l
put another like this (with real values though):
ip.address      fully.qualified.hostname hostname

Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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To set up hostname with Mandrake, i had to do 2 things:

1) Change it with linuxconf.

2) Edit /etc/hosts, by adding the new hostname.  Keep the old one on a separate line, especially if you use Gnome.

Doug.