Package: rsyslog Version: 8.4.2-1+deb8u1 Severity: grave Hi,
some time ago I was affected by a really nasty bug. I tried to start a new X session to login as a new user but did not remember how to do so (from an XFCE session). So I ended up calling X as root and this was a big problem: This started a Gnome session which I stopped immediately (I wanted a new X login session). Nevertheless I was not able to work on my system because I got very fast out of free disk space. The following files got bigger and bigger containing many GB after a few minutes: /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog /var/log/user.log They were filled with messages like: ("Keine Berechtigung.": German for "no permission"). Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum number of pending replies per connection has been reached Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': Keine Berechtigung. dconf will not work properly. I do not remember that I ever changed the config files of rsyslog. Just in case it is dconf's fault, I used version 0.22.0-1. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.17.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libestr0 0.1.9-1.1 ii libjson-c2 0.11-4 ii liblogging-stdlog0 1.0.4-1 ii liblognorm1 1.0.1-3 ii libuuid1 2.25.2-6 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.8.7-1+b1 Versions of packages rsyslog suggests: pn rsyslog-doc <none> pn rsyslog-gnutls <none> pn rsyslog-gssapi <none> pn rsyslog-mongodb <none> pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> pn rsyslog-relp <none> -- no debconf information