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Bug 742731 - housekeeping-plugin dislikes systemd private namespace directories: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-...
housekeeping-plugin dislikes systemd private namespace directories: Failed to...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: housekeeping
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Richard Hughes
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-01-10 22:03 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2019-03-20 11:25 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2015-01-10 22:03:44 UTC 
With housekeeping-plugin enabled I often get lets of these warnings in syslog:

gnome-session[2173]: (gnome-settings-daemon:2266): housekeeping-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to enumerate children of /var/tmp/systemd-private-80cdc19ff585439e875829bf938b78c1-colord.service-WVom: Access denied

Those directories cannot be cleaned up since they are owned by root (and housekeeping-plugin is not run as root).

See downstream bug in Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988632

In my case the affected directories are:
/tmp/systemd-private-*
/var/tmp/systemd-private-* (rtkit-daemon.service, colord.service, cups.service)
/var/tmp/kdecache-root
/var/tmp/yub-abrt-*
/var/tmp/abrt/*
and some entries in trash://
Comment 1 Christian Stadelmann 2015-05-13 21:50:34 UTC 
Still present in 3.16.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2019-03-20 11:25:26 UTC 
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