Bug 1199494 - gnome-settings-daemon dislikes systemd private namespace directories
Summary: gnome-settings-daemon dislikes systemd private namespace directories
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-06 13:43 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2016-09-28 21:20 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-09-28 21:20:57 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2015-03-06 13:43:34 UTC
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

Comment 1 Zachary Graham 2015-04-07 03:08:47 UTC
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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Comment 3 Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-28 21:20:57 UTC
This issue is not present any more on Fedora 25 with Gnome 3.22.


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