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Annoyingduck

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Registered: 2016-08-02

Posts: 179

Vino Server .Xsessions-Errors File Fills Up Hard Drive Space

A little background:  I don't know much about VNC servers or remote access.  I was originally going to set up a simple Manjaro seedbox, but then decided I wanted it much lighter so I went with pure Arch. Here's my post in the Manjaro forum that got my current user session (not virtual session) VNC server up and running/working properly: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/can-someone … cess/31499. I'm posting here because the method described there I'm currently using on an Arch machine.

Now to my current issue.  My server/seedbox runs 24/7 and has a 60gb SSD that about every 3-5 days keeps getting filled up.  I tracked the issue to the Vino server which continually keeps adding to the .xsession-errors file until the hard drive space is maxed out.  At which point the PC CPU load goes haywire and I have to delete the .xessions-errors file and reboot.  I found many similar issues reported in the Ubuntu forums, but this one from the Debian forum is pretty spot on (no solution though) http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=88509.  A user there also reports the same result using TigerVNC and UltraVNC.

I'd like to continue using Vino (Actually, I'm using Vino38 per recommendation from the Arch Wiki which is spot on for setting up Vino).  Anyone know what is causing this or a solution to make it stop....even a band-aid?  Everything is up and functioning perfectly with the exception of this very annoying issue.

Here's my current .xsession-errors that continually keeps growing (this was done about an hour after deleting the last 45gb file created): https://gist.github.com/annoyingduck/04 … 9da312a5e4