Jimmy, the example was supposed to bring in another player which makes the mysterious file occur. In ~/ the file only occured on shutdown. Since I almost never shutdown except a new kernel or else asked me to I haven't seen the file in a while. True is that this file never got my attention on any Ubuntu until 12.04, but perhaps it was there all along and only ephemeral in /tmp or somewhere else since the manual says "it's a base class for writing output". Seems it does some kind of file operation monitoring. http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/barnowl/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/GOutputStream.html#GOutputStream-struct
Another reproducable test case shows that .goutputstream* is created in the target directory when a copy operation was terminated. Nautilus two pane view, use context menu to copy a large (>1gb) file from left to right pane, it has the same title so you've been asked to replace, yes, start to copy and then terminate the copy operation by click on the cross of the dialog window. It creates a .goutputstream* file. In 2009 it was considered as bug in glib (gio), unfortunately no bug number available. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gvfs-list/2009-April/msg00008.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984785 Title: .goutputstream files polluting $HOME Status in Light Display Manager: New Status in X.Org X server: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “lightdm” source package in Precise: Confirmed Bug description: .goutputstream files polluting $HOME. Which software or operation is creating these and why? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: xauth 1:1.0.6-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia & ati ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 18 13:29:31 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xauth UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/984785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
