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ppurka
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 7:18 am Post subject: xdg-xxxxxx directories fill up /tmp |
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After a recent upgrade of my system - I usually upgrade once in about 2 months - I noticed that my /tmp gets filled up with tons of xdg-xxxxxx directories, and it never gets cleaned up. For example here is an output from my current /tmp:
| Code: | ~» l -d /tmp/xdg-*
0 /tmp/xdg-06trrm/ 0 /tmp/xdg-7mKsjS/ 0 /tmp/xdg-CAk57z/ 0 /tmp/xdg-HrwPln/ 0 /tmp/xdg-NkyAZ3/ 0 /tmp/xdg-tW1jpR/
0 /tmp/xdg-0fTPNA/ 0 /tmp/xdg-82eNQk/ 0 /tmp/xdg-cKq7L7/ 0 /tmp/xdg-iLtiBL/ 0 /tmp/xdg-o1xOFT/ 0 /tmp/xdg-ukXPk6/
0 /tmp/xdg-0KXAMI/ 0 /tmp/xdg-8OoZyi/ 0 /tmp/xdg-D18yvP/ 0 /tmp/xdg-JKq635/ 0 /tmp/xdg-pJkI0W/ 0 /tmp/xdg-vFQcjP/
0 /tmp/xdg-0vFXgR/ 0 /tmp/xdg-9XgkVQ/ 0 /tmp/xdg-FeAWzh/ 0 /tmp/xdg-jQC7Ft/ 0 /tmp/xdg-PRSkpq/ 0 /tmp/xdg-wqr4EK/
0 /tmp/xdg-1b6DJA/ 0 /tmp/xdg-alPbUp/ 0 /tmp/xdg-gGtbOd/ 0 /tmp/xdg-JUKIJV/ 0 /tmp/xdg-qCo7bA/ 0 /tmp/xdg-XbuctD/
0 /tmp/xdg-26EXbc/ 0 /tmp/xdg-apy0kR/ 0 /tmp/xdg-gIYCAk/ 0 /tmp/xdg-JvMcm0/ 0 /tmp/xdg-qNuh2W/ 0 /tmp/xdg-XdaGeu/
0 /tmp/xdg-3Mg6Cc/ 0 /tmp/xdg-BgZpwX/ 0 /tmp/xdg-gUUHsP/ 0 /tmp/xdg-khGQgU/ 0 /tmp/xdg-rBP961/ 0 /tmp/xdg-xHiX2f/
0 /tmp/xdg-4WWte6/ 0 /tmp/xdg-bIm5sm/ 0 /tmp/xdg-hbyXqd/ 0 /tmp/xdg-KTuiiE/ 0 /tmp/xdg-ShPSiW/ 0 /tmp/xdg-zOuZnM/
0 /tmp/xdg-54YSGq/ 0 /tmp/xdg-bNPwtz/ 0 /tmp/xdg-hc8bZb/ 0 /tmp/xdg-MesSRL/ 0 /tmp/xdg-SK41cc/
0 /tmp/xdg-5HokMR/ 0 /tmp/xdg-c53rQN/ 0 /tmp/xdg-hFFb0J/ 0 /tmp/xdg-N6qsFu/ 0 /tmp/xdg-Sy0yAp/
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Does anyone know what program creates these tons of empty directories? I must add that pulseaudio seems to use one of these directories in another installation that I have - I have noticed that pulseaudio complains in syslog if I delete the whole bunch.
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This is ridiculous. Someone bungled up real bad. For a system that has been up for 10 days, there are 150 xdg directories in /tmp. | Code: | /tmp» l -1d xdg-* | wc -l
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/tmp» uptime
12:25:45 up 10 days, 16:18, 14 users, load average: 0.45, 0.38, 0.46
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(I don't know where it gets "14 users" from). There are only two users (actual users) on this machine. And one of these two is only for test purposes which I rarely, if ever, log into.
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