Description of problem: Numerous instances in the journal: Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-fwupd.service-eg4pQN: Error opening directory '/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-fwupd.service-eg4pQN': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-colord.service-EbfJsw: Error opening directory '/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-colord.service-EbfJsw': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-chronyd.service-SOcL2Y: Error opening directory '/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-chronyd.service-SOcL2Y': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-fwupd.service-3vOgwh: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-fwupd.service-3vOgwh': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-colord.service-3liCez: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-colord.service-3liCez': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-chronyd.service-bXfqfN: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-chronyd.service-bXfqfN': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-rtkit-daemon.service-d4LbGy: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-rtkit-daemon.service-d4LbGy': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-bluetooth.service-DGB6Pa: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/systemd-private-20e0a1d1872d464085b69fca46e1f198-bluetooth.service-DGB6Pa': Permission denied Apr 03 16:57:35 f28h.local gsd-housekeepin[1869]: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/dnf-abrt-9tsoz1da: Error opening directory '/var/tmp/dnf-abrt-9tsoz1da': Permission denied Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-settings-daemon-3.28.0-1.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. 3. Actual results: Lots of noise that seems pointless and uninformative. Expected results: No noise, or provide a useful error message. Additional info: Near as I can tell gsd-housekeeping shouldn't even be looking in these areas, and doesn't have permission to clean them up either because systemd already does this. http://systemd-devel.freedesktop.narkive.com/t7B2okiX/systemd-gnome-permission-problems#post4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1745666 Propose disabling gsd-housekeeping entirely if upstream can't justify this behavior.
Created attachment 1416994 [details] journal log
Upstream bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/issues/26
I can confirm this bug in gnome-settings-daemon-3.28.1-1.fc28.x86_64.
Bug persists in Fedora 29. Please change version to 29 since i can't do that. gnome-settings-daemon-3.30.1.2-2.fc29.x86_64
Bug persists in gnome-settings-daemon-3.30.2-1.fc29.x86_64: Jan 13 06:59:35 7 gsd-housekeepin[2301]: Failed to enumerate children of /tmp/systemd-private-b4f70ffd7f1c49f2be843a945c95ab0f-fwupd.service-96gEsd: Error opening directory '/tmp/systemd-private-b4f70ffd7f1c49f2be843a945c95ab0f-fwupd.service-96gEsd': Permission denied And Chris, please change version to 29 since i can't do that.
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