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>

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