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This bug report is a copy of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988632 Description of problem: gnome-settings-daemon housekeeping-plugin fails to clean up (delete) old systemd private directories. These errors are logged exactly every hour (+60min between two blocks of those log entries) In my case those directories are: /tmp/systemd-private-* /var/tmp/systemd-private-* /var/tmp/kdecache-root /var/tmp/abrt/* and some entries in trash:// this for example looks like Jul 25 19:52:39 olympian /etc/gdm/Xsession[1631]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1689): housekeeping-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-YMj80k: Permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 21 systemd 216 gnome-settings-daemon 3.14.2 How reproducible: always when old systemd directories are left over. On several Fedora installations. Steps to Reproduce: 1. wait for 1 hour 2. watch syslog Expected results: those directories should be cleaned up
I'm not sure whether or not they're supposed to be deleted, but yes I also have a few files and directories in /var/tmp that generate the same warning. It is certainly a permissions issue: Systemd temporary directories create this warning. All directories are owned root:root and have 700 permissions. Some abrt directories create this warning. These particular directories are owned root:abrt and have 770 permissions. Trimmed log output can be found at: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/207827/
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This issue is not present any more on Fedora 25 with Gnome 3.22.