Bug 496177

Or should /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit clean them out on boot?

--- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit	2009-04-07 08:58:41.000000000 -0700
+++ ./rc.sysinit	2009-04-17 10:44:05.057453505 -0700
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@
 rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.lock.* /tmp/.gdm_socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*
 rm -rf /tmp/.X*-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix /tmp/.font-unix /tmp/hsperfdata_* \
        /tmp/kde-* /tmp/ksocket-* /tmp/mc-* /tmp/mcop-* /tmp/orbit-*  \
-       /tmp/scrollkeeper-*  /tmp/ssh-* \
+       /tmp/scrollkeeper-*  /tmp/ssh-*  /tmp/virtual-* \
        /dev/.in_sysinit
 
 # Make ICE directory

It probably should, but thats no reason for gvfs not to clean up after itself.

Yes, we should try to clean up on exit, but there are various cases where exit is unclean so I agree that rc.sysinit should clean them out on boot too.

seahorse-agent (in the seahorse-plugins package) has some code to deal with cleaning up on SIGTERM or SIGINT.

Actually, what is probably needed here is either an xioerrorhandler or a handling the dbus disconnected signal.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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I'm changing this to Rawhide, since I'm still seeing this:

[root@tlondon ~]# ls -d /tmp/virtual* | wc
     95      95    2280
[root@tlondon ~]# 

And these are all from 2 July -> 24 July.

Forgot to add versions:

gvfs-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-gphoto2-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-debuginfo-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-archive-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-fuse-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-obexftp-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64
gvfs-smb-1.3.2-1.fc12.x86_64

Would it make sense to create this kind of file/directory in a tmpfs?  Perhaps something like "/ephemeral" or some such?

Cleanup issues would go away......

[I suppose mounting /tmp as a tmpfs would do the same.]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Polyinstantiated_Temporary_Directories is a feature page about this.

(In reply to comment #10)
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Polyinstantiated_Temporary_Directories
> is a feature page about this.  

Neat...  Will this "cleanup the clutter" on logout/close/unmount?

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This continues with rawhide.......

[tbl@tlondon ~]$ ls -d /tmp/virt*
/tmp/virtual-tbl.2sUsZa  /tmp/virtual-tbl.HxmKvq  /tmp/virtual-tbl.V9eXKG
/tmp/virtual-tbl.4CmPwf  /tmp/virtual-tbl.IxZemr  /tmp/virtual-tbl.WJ2CeI
/tmp/virtual-tbl.62QUd1  /tmp/virtual-tbl.KIBkFr  /tmp/virtual-tbl.WSo6xq
/tmp/virtual-tbl.6VdvRW  /tmp/virtual-tbl.KJRoue  /tmp/virtual-tbl.xAam1i
/tmp/virtual-tbl.EFTxDo  /tmp/virtual-tbl.qt3rKl  /tmp/virtual-tbl.XlhjRk
/tmp/virtual-tbl.FJjz0g  /tmp/virtual-tbl.Su6vSA
/tmp/virtual-tbl.GRyG10  /tmp/virtual-tbl.T0CThE
[tbl@tlondon ~]$

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Hi all, I'm running FC14 Beta, with all testing updates installed. I just thought I'd mention I am also having the issue of lots of /tmp/virtual-(username).****** files left behind. I have had to dirty shut-down the machine a few times due to application hangs. Anyway I just thought I'd mention it, I am going to get cron to clean them out on reboot for now.
br,
alex

(In reply to comment #15)
> Hi all, I'm running FC14 Beta, with all testing updates installed. I just
> thought I'd mention I am also having the issue of lots of
> /tmp/virtual-(username).****** files left behind. I have had to dirty shut-down
> the machine a few times due to application hangs. Anyway I just thought I'd
> mention it, I am going to get cron to clean them out on reboot for now.
> br,
> alex

Unfortunately, the /tmp/virtual-* directories remain even with clean shutdowns/reboots.

My workaround is to remove them in /etc/rc.local. There will always be one in /tmp, because rc.local runs before the gnome session starts. I don't know if "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty" is really needed -- the virtual-* directories have always been empty when I removed them manually.

$ cat /etc/rc.local 
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /tmp/virtual-*

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Fedora 15 also has this bug.

See also bug #468670 .  It's not just that these directories are being created and not removed, it's also that something (it's not known what) periodically touches the directories, preventing their removal.

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