Bug#605544: gnome-shell: spews massive amounts of text to console

[brian m. carlson]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:16:21PM +0000, althaser wrote:
> Sure, that's what I did.
> 
> at the beginning I just see a few lines complaining about issues on loading
> extensions for instance. Over time and running the apps it notes the
> issue's apps but I think that's the "normal" behaviour: errors, warnings,
> etc.

Then it sounds like you can still reproduce this.  Any graphical
application should be silent to the terminal unless it's reporting a
significant error, which it should do on standard error as normal.

I get the following output:

  Window manager warning: Log level 16: Attempt to add property Gjs_MonitorConstraint::primary after class was initialised
  Window manager warning: Log level 16: Attempt to add property Gjs_MonitorConstraint::index after class was initialised
  Window manager warning: Log level 16: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
        JS LOG: Failed to register AuthenticationAgent
        JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Thu Mar 20 2014 00:03:15 GMT+0000 (UTC)
        JS LOG: Could not set property status on remote object /org/gnome/SessionManager/Presence: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
        JS LOG: Failed to add search provider /usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/nautilus-search-provider.ini: TypeError: appInfo is null

The first two clearly indicate a bug that needs to be fixed.  Also, I am
not in the slightest interested in when gnome-shell started, since that
is not an error.  The volume of text is not as great as it used to be,
but it is still producing too much text to the console and needs to be
fixed.

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