Bug 1665862 - Directories with random names created in home directory after login
Summary: Directories with random names created in home directory after login
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1665521
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: basesystem
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-01-14 09:55 UTC by Roman
Modified: 2019-01-14 10:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-01-14 10:52:24 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Roman 2019-01-14 09:55:40 UTC
Description of problem:


After each reboot an empty folder with random name appears in home directory. Each time name is new and does not look like anything meaningful, more like some garbage. To give you an example, here are a few names exactly as reported by "ls -l -a"

    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:23 ' '$'\326'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:21 ''$'\240\335'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:19 ''$'\240\355\346''3tU'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:18 ''$'\260\323'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:12 ''p'$'\351'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:08 '0'$'\304'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 12:05 '0'$'\305'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 11:57 '0'$'\327'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 11:53 '@'$'\327'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 11:50 'p'$'\351'
    drwxrwxr-x   2 adontz adontz     6 Jan 14 11:47 'p'$'\351'



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How reproducible:


Install fresh Fedora 29 with KDE using netinstall image.


Steps to Reproduce:


1. Install Fedora
2. Reboot
3. LogIn


Actual results:


After each reboot and login an empty folder with random name appears in home directory.


Expected results:


No random directories created.


Additional info:


These directories cannot be deleted from Dolphin, only from command line.

HDD is not damaged, checked. Also, at the moment I write this, it already happens on three distinct computers. Just logout and login is not enough, restart is required, but directories are created at login moment.

Also, I have tried to use auditd/auditctl to find out which process created these folders with the following rule

    -a exit,always -F dir=/home/"

then tried to find anything useful from audit log with

    grep -P -o 'name="[^"]+"' /var/log/audit/audit.log

but I have found no related records.

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2019-01-14 10:52:24 UTC
This seems to be already tracked as bug #1665521.  Definitely not a bug of the basesystem package.

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


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