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

[Florian Hubold]

Hello,

just recently i noticed that my .xsession-errors on Mageia 1 has grown quite a bit:

    [doktor5000 at mageia1 ~]$ ls -lah .xsession-errors
    -rw------- 1 doktor5000 doktor5000 1,2G Sep  3 10:46 .xsession-errors

I already disabled all KDE debug information via kdebugdialog, which i needed 
earlier,
but GTK/GLIB seems to give a flood of messages like the ones below:

    (transmission-gtk:16147): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
    `GtkTreeView' to `GtkProgress'

    (transmission-gtk:16147): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
    IA__gtk_progress_get_current_percentage: assertion `GTK_IS_PROGRESS
    (progress)' failed

    (transmission-gtk:16147): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
    `GtkTreeView' to `GtkProgress'

    (transmission-gtk:16147): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
    `GtkTreeView' to `GtkProgress'

    (transmission-gtk:16147): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
    `GtkTreeView' to `GtkProgressBar'

    (transmission-gtk:16147): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
    IA__gtk_progress_bar_get_orientation: assertion `GTK_IS_PROGRESS_BAR
    (pbar)' failed

    [doktor5000 at mageia1 ~]$ grep GLib-GObject-WARNING .xsession-errors | wc -l
    166425
    [doktor5000 at mageia1 ~]$ grep Gtk-CRITICAL .xsession-errors | wc -l
    83470


Can anyone give me a hint how to disable those, please? And how to proceed with
the cause, those messages should clearly be suppressed, as transmission works 
correct
and such a growth of .xsession-error is totally wrong. It also makes it really hard
to find real, legitimate error messages in .xsession-errors.
Also this can lead to real problems, like in: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00927.html
filling up the root partition, which can cause quite some problems to normal users,
if they have no seperate /home partition. The only workarounds i have found so far
suggest removing .xsession-errors and linking it to /dev/null after each X login,
but this seems really ugly to me.

Regards