[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
i'm on Ubuntu 14 lts (16 didnt even boot up on this device, so i didnt bother to update, its an LTS after all) not only this bug is still present but i found another one: if you open an image protected by password in an zip file, then close the file roller, the image disapear, i guess that is the expected, but there is another issue. even if you close the image, if you put the computer to hibernate, then return from it (the hibernate status) the image will open again... i'm not sure what is happening here, but here is what i guess: i was seeing some password protected files, something crash on the background so i had to kill some processes including firefox, i'm not sure if i killed the file roller too and the pp files (password protected) or they close automatically and the system was trying to recover from crash, i constantly closed an openend pp files sometimes, and set the computer to hibernate, when i wake up the computer, the files where openend many times, as if i never had closed then. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
The problem is not entirely that files are not created in /tmp, but rather that nothing cleans them up in the event of a crashed or killed process. I also see these files in the current directory as well as tmp and .cache As these directories are prefixed with a dot, less technical users will probably not see them as the default in the file manager is to hide them. I found over 2.5GB of these files on my system, which means they are also taking up backup space and resources, too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
I've switched to Xarchiver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Also affects: file-roller (Arch Linux) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
I Deleted the ~/.cache/.fr-* files and saved 117GB on a 480GB SSD drive. My system had gone down with less than 500mb in free space after the last view zip file crash and my system would no longer let me log in to my main account (Constant re login attempts). I had to use the log in for fixing the system at the startup prompt and the system came up to Debian not Ubuntu 16.10. I Timeshifted back 2 days to get back to Ubuntu. May need to look for a different file archive program, this is a big drive eater after a crash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
The code source is on https://git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller and you can read https://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers/SubmittingPatches to have details on how to submit a patch to the code -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
I tracked down this bug. The source of the problem is in src/file-
utils.c. It looks like File Roller calls _g_path_get_temp_work_dir,
which searches the user's cache dir, user's home dir, and tmp, for a
place to put the temporary folder. It searches in that order. The
criteria for the search is available free space. The location with the
most free space will be used. If two locations have the same amount of
free space, the one searched first will be used.
The bug is that, at least on my system, /tmp and ~/.cache both have the
same amount of free space. So ~/.cache gets used, since it's searched
first.
This searching algorithm is reasonable, as opposed to just always using
/tmp. What if File Roller is run on a system where /tmp is limited, and
now the user can't extract an archive because /tmp keeps blowing up. So
it makes sense to use whatever has the most available disk space.
I suggest fixing this by changing the search order. The search order is
defined by:
static const char *try_folder[] = { "cache", "~", "tmp", NULL };
Let's change that to:
static const char *try_folder[] = { "tmp", "cache", "~", NULL };
It's a simple change, and for systems like mine, where /tmp is part of
the root filesystem, File Roller will use tmp since it should have the
same free space as cache.
A better solution may be a compile time option to force a particular
folder, or a run-time preference. In both cases it will be up to the
distro to configure the appropriate compile option or default
preference, according to how their distro installs.
If someone lets me know: where to pull the latest File Roller source
code, and how to submit a patch, I can at least submit a patch tweaking
try_folder.
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[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
Very annoying... file-roller 3.20.2-1 on Arch Linux. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
Confirmed in 15.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Description changed: - Steps to reproduce: + 1) lsb_release -rd + Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) + Release: 15.04 - 1. Open a tarball with file-roller - 2. Open a file within the archive without explicitly extracting it. (Such as by double clicking the file) - 3. Notice that the file is extracted to a directory ~/.fr-* - 4. Close file-roller. If you used file-roller's GUI to exit, the temporary file(s) and directory are deleted. However, if you kill it via SIGTERM or logout without exiting file-roller (I presume that sends either SIGTERM or SIGHUP), the temp files are left behind. + 2) apt-cache policy file-roller + file-roller: + Installed: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1 + Candidate: 3.12.2-0ubuntu1 + Version table: + *** 3.12.2-0ubuntu1 0 + 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages + 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - There are two problems with this: + 3) What is expected to happen is when one opens a tarball with file- + roller, and without extracting the file, open it (ex. open PDF file with + evince) the file-roller utilizes /tmp for this. - 1. file-roller should clean up its temp files on exit, regardless of the exit method (with the obvious exception of SIGKILL, which can't be trapped). - 2. The proper place for temporary files is /tmp. Dotfiles in $HOME are for program settings and the like. In the event that file-roller doesn't clean up its temp files, they just pollute $HOME and waste disk space. However, /tmp is cleaned on boot (or is it in shutdown?), so pollution and wasted disk space is minimized. + 4) What happens instead is file-roller utilizes a directory ~/.cache/.fr-* , where * is a changing folder name. If one logs out, or kills the file-roller process via: + kill PID + + the temp files are left behind. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = Wishlist ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
As for now, File Roller 3.2.1 puts its temp files not in folders like '~/.fr-a1b2c3', but in '~/.cache/.fr-a1b2c3', so I've reported that as bug #883628. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 Title: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/245716/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller Importance: Unknown = Medium -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
This bug is *not* fixed in up-to-date lucid lynx. Files are now written to ~/.cache/.fr-* but this is still not $TEMP. I would like to reduce the amount of writes to my ssd, while I don't mind writes to /tmp (which is mounted as tmpfs). Yes, I could also mount ~/.cache as tmpfs but doing so would be tedious to setup for every user. (A similar use-case to mine are nfs-mounted homes where $TEMP is likely to be local, while $HOMEDIR is not.) I second that all temporary files should go into $TEMP, not into $HOMEDIR/.cache -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
@nataliya: Really? A fix has been committed? There's no text explaining this fact. I'd change the status back to Triaged, but I can't do so. Confirmed is the best I can do. If this bug really has been fixed, please post an explanation so the status change doesn't appear to be a random drive-by change. ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Confirmed -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 146206 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146206 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 146206 files are copied to a local directory before being extracted -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
Un-marking this as a duplicate of bug 146206. This bug is about file- roller incorrectly using temp files and not cleaning up behind itself. Bug 146206 is about file-roller copying files to a local directory before being extracted. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 146206 files are copied to a local directory before being extracted -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: New = Triaged -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #541616 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541616 ** Also affects: fileroller via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541616 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 245716] Re: file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
** Changed in: fileroller Status: Unknown = New -- file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
