How delete corrupt direcotry in tmpfs filesystem

jagdpanther · l33t Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 736

Other than rebooting or unmount /remount the tmpfs, how do I delete a corrupt directory in a tmpfs file system?

I have tried the suggestions here: https://superuser.com/questions/197605/delete-a-corrupt-file-in-linux
I seem to have a similar issue.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 11:41 pm Post subject:

Were you perhaps using one of the xdg portals?

if so make sure none of these are running
xdg-document-portal xdg-desktop-portal xdg-permission-store

and then umount -q /tmp/doc (mount -v should show what's mounted/holding it)
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jagdpanther · l33t Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 736

Anon-E-moose:

Thank you. That filxed the issue. Now I need to see what caused that xdg portal thing. (Starting with learning about xdg portals)

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:54 am Post subject:

xdg portal is used for screen sharing typically.

Depending on which wm/compositor you use it may be triggered off in a config file
or pipewire/wireplumber might start it something thinks screen sharing is being used.
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jagdpanther · l33t Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 736

I have found many applications that use xdg portal. Almost all do not cause issues. Next time I run into my original issue, I'll start with a 'df -a' which does show those portal filesystem mounts..

I did notice that if I want to switch users and use pipewire/wire plumber, the most reliable way was to kill the current user's usage (killall pipewire) then log in as the other user and run gentoo-pipewire-launcher. I could never get 'su - <other user>' to work when pipewire was involved for audio.