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Bug 547943 - at-spi spewing incessant useless warnings to stderr, filling up disk
at-spi spewing incessant useless warnings to stderr, filling up disk
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: at-spi
Classification: Platform
Component: atkbridge
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Li Yuan
Li Yuan
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-15 18:22 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2008-09-27 08:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (463 bytes, patch)
2008-09-27 08:54 UTC, Li Yuan 		committed Details | Review

Description Matthias Clasen 2008-08-15 18:22:09 UTC 
This was filed in Fedora here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459275

Here is a proposed patch:

--- at-spi-1.23.6.orig/atk-bridge/bridge.c 2008-08-15 13:23:16.000000000 -0400
+++ at-spi-1.23.6/atk-bridge/bridge.c 2008-08-15 13:26:15.000000000 -0400
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ spi_atk_bridget_get_dec (void)

   if (BONOBO_EX (&ev))
     {
-      g_warning (_("failure: no device event controller found.\n"));
+      DBG (1, g_warning (_("failure: no device event controller found.\n")));
       registry_died = TRUE;
       device_event_controller = CORBA_OBJECT_NIL;
     }
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-08-15 18:22:32 UTC 
To cite from the downstream bug report:

...has been repeating over and over and over and over, to the tune of a 43G
~/.xsession-errors file on my laptop in a mere day and a half of uptime.
Comment 2 Li Yuan 2008-09-27 08:54:31 UTC 
Created attachment 119467 [details] [review]
patch