I had the same thing as Marcel noted in comment #8. My /tmp directory was filled with links to a ppd file under /etc/cups. I had to reboot in recovery mode to remove them. There were more a million, there were at least one link for every 13-digit hexademical number starting with the same 6 digits so at least 2^28, or approximately a quarter of a billion. I had to create a script to delete them because it was too many arguments for rm to handle.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to colord in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/890705 Title: temp file links left in /tmp to ppd file in /etc/cups after printing Status in colord package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: smoser@brickies:~/t/query$ ls -altr /tmp | grep cups | wc -l 24 smoser@brickies:~/t/query$ ls -altr /tmp | grep cups lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:01 4ec1d626d9c1e -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:10 4ec1d82e590c4 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:11 4ec1d86793e28 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:12 4ec1d899ddac3 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:13 4ec1d8ca65743 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:14 4ec1d8fc60981 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:14 4ec1d92ce256e -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:15 4ec1d95ec33e9 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:16 4ec1d98e7dc69 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:17 4ec1d9c07720b -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:18 4ec1d9f190626 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:18 4ec1da23d893b -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:19 4ec1da5434731 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:21 4ec1dad0e26ae -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:22 4ec1db085aa32 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:23 4ec1db3b399d0 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:24 4ec1db6aef2c6 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:25 4ec1db9cb3ce8 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:26 4ec1dbcd66aa5 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:26 4ec1dc0078de0 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:27 4ec1dc302ed89 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:28 4ec1dc6283de6 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:29 4ec1dc939456a -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd lrwxrwxrwx 1 27 22:30 4ec1dcc685f46 -> /etc/cups/ppd/MFC-420CN.ppd # ls output above had user , group and Day trimmed for width's sake. # user and group were smoser, day was 'Nov 14' (yesterday). I actually printed 24 copies of a document last night around that time, so that is likely what resulted in these links. The ppd file in question is: $ dpkg -S /usr/share/ppd/Brother/brmfc420cn_cups.ppd brother-cups-wrapper-extra: /usr/share/ppd/Brother/brmfc420cn_cups.ppd $ dpkg-query --show brother-cups-wrapper-extra brother-cups-wrapper-extra 1.2.1-0ubuntu3 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: cups 1.5.0-11 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic 3.1.0 Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CupsErrorLog: W [15/Nov/2011:07:40:51 -0500] failed to AddProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed:profile object path '/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/MFC_420CN_Gray__' has already been added W [15/Nov/2011:07:40:51 -0500] failed to AddProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Failed:profile object path '/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/MFC_420CN_RGB__' has already been added Date: Tue Nov 15 09:17:26 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) Lpstat: device for MFC-420CN: usb://Brother/MFC-420CN?serial=BROL5F736191 MachineType: LENOVO 7417CTO Papersize: letter PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card PpdFiles: MFC-420CN: Brother MFC-420CN CUPS v1.1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-2-generic root=UUID=f9832678-e9fb-41c5-8edb-5edd5200ed0a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-07 (8 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 7UET91WW (3.21 ) dmi.board.name: 7417CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7UET91WW(3.21):bd12/06/2010:svnLENOVO:pn7417CTO:pvrThinkPadT400:rvnLENOVO:rn7417CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 7417CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T400 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/colord/+bug/890705/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
