Bug 1665676 - Directories with gibberish two-character names created on each login
Summary: Directories with gibberish two-character names created on each login
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1665521
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: filesystem
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-12 12:49 UTC by David Bolding
Modified: 2019-01-13 13:39 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-01-13 07:06:04 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
last couple of dnf transactions (16.03 KB, text/plain)
2019-01-12 12:49 UTC, David Bolding
no flags Details

Description David Bolding 2019-01-12 12:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 1520185 [details]
last couple of dnf transactions

Description of problem:
Every time I log in, between one and three directories with gibberish two-character names are produced.  The directories are empty and have my UID and GID (unsurprisingly).

I've only noticed this happening the last few hours--it wasn't happening yesterday, and I dnf updated today.  (I'll attach the last couple DNF transactions, just to aide any kind of educated guess about what might be causing this.)

I've been trying to use audit to figure out what process is actually creating these files, but I haven't been able to sort it out; any hints for an appropriate rule (or a better way of tracking this down) would be helpful.

Notably, I'm not the only person having this problem; there's some discussion on the fedora reddit.  https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/aexdoa/weird_folder_in_my_home/

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
no/unknown component

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in

Actual results:
random directories are generated.

Expected results:
directory contents are unchanged.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Didier G 2019-01-12 19:13:51 UTC
Same problem since yesterday evening.

Comment 2 Eric Work 2019-01-13 06:53:27 UTC
Same here, but I usually just get one directory each boot/login.  Sometimes it does have more than 2 character and the first time I noticed the problem it was just '?'.  It just started happening today on both my desktop and laptop.

Comment 3 Eric Work 2019-01-13 07:06:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1665521 ***

Comment 4 MicMor 2019-01-13 13:39:25 UTC
Same thing with me.

Fedora 29 x86_64 , Up to date


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