Bug 26802

Summary:	KScreen - Lots of error message in systemd journal
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jose Manuel López <joselp>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith
Version:	7	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	Kscreen	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jose Manuel López 2020-06-16 00:31:29 CEST

Description of problem: There is a log of error messages in systemd journal


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 7- ksreen.


How reproducible: Review var/log/journal and error messages in konsole with: journalctl -l


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put in konsole journalctl -l 
2. Export the output
3. Review the error messages of kscreen

Comment 1 Jose Manuel López 2020-06-16 00:33:31 CEST

On my computer, journal occupies 3.7 Gb, and on another computer other than 2 Gb with many Kscreen errors on both computers.

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-06-17 11:09:58 CEST

(In reply to Jose Manuel López from comment #1)
> On my computer, journal occupies 3.7 Gb, and on another computer other than
> 2 Gb with many Kscreen errors on both computers.
What do you mean by 'journal'? For example, on my box
 $ du -s /var/log/journal/
 1.1G    /var/log/journal/
but this contains 32 journal files of the order 10-100Mb.
Doing what you did 'journalctl -l' showed the journals from months ago.
To look at just the current session:
 $ journalctl -b --no-hostname                       [shortens the lines]
and to see kscreen msgs for just the current session:
 $ journalctl -b --no-hostname | grep kscreen

Running under Plasma here:
 $ journalctl -b | wc -l
 2001
 $ journalctl -b | grep kscreen | wc -l
 86
showing just 86/2001 kscreen journal msgs for this session - admittedly a lot, but not excessive.

Can you try these things to test whether your system is producing excessive kscreen journal messages?
If it is, please do:
 $ journalctl -b --no-hostname | grep kscreen > kscreen.txt
and attach that file to this bug. If the file is very big, please compress it first with 'xz'.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-19 23:04:56 CEST

Does this still valid?
Closing it on 2020-08-26.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-24 17:39:53 CEST

There is some change upstream that such warning are gone in new versions of Plasma. Actually in Cauldron, Plasma 5.19.4 (KScreen) no longer produce error level log.

Closing Worksome

CC: ouaurelien => (none)
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM
Status: NEW => RESOLVED