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gconfd-2 does not cleanup empty directories under /tmp

Bug #103349 reported by Marc Tardif
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gconf
Fix Released
High
gconf (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

When a user logins, gconfd creates a new session and creates a temporary directory for the user under /tmp. For a user named cr3, gconfd creates the directory /tmp/gconfd-cr3. While the user is logged in, this directory is used for storing miscellaneous files. For example, gconfd creates a lock subdirectory.

When a user logouts, gconfd cleans everything in the temporary directory except the directory itself. In the above example, the directory /tmp/gconfd-cr3 remains and is completely empty.

The expected behavior is that gconfd should cleanup everything for users under /tmp when they logout.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug

Changed in gconf2:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's known upstream, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167030

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Changed in gconf:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gconf2:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in gconf:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Changed in gconf:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Changed in gconf:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in gconf2:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gconf - 2.23.2-0ubuntu1

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gconf (2.23.2-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Fixes
    - cleanups
    Features
    - stop using /tmp for the IOR, instead use the DBus session bus
    - optionally install a DBus service for system-wide settings
  * debian/control.in:
    - build-depends on libpolkit-dbus-dev
  * debian/gconf2-common.install:
    - new version update

gconf (2.23.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream versions:
    Fixes
    - Fix the build.
    - stop spamming syslog
    - signal handling fixes
    - use AC_HELP_STRINGS for nice formatting
    - timeout batching work
    - remove syslog spamming code
    - fix a crash when unsetting a key with no writable source
    - allow overriding $TMPDIR
    - integration with D-BUS (lp: #103349)
    - translation updates
  * debian/control.in:
    - add Build-Depends on libdbus-1-dev and libdbus-glib-1-dev
    - libgconf2-dev depends on libdbus-1-dev now
    - updated maintainer information
  * debian/gconf2-common.install:
    - install the new dbus activation service
  * debian/patches/01_no_syslog_thanks.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version
  * Sync on Debian

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:42:30 +0200

Changed in gconf:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Changed in gconf:
importance: Unknown → High
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