Bug 336944

Summary:	Dolphin does not clean /tmp? (root partition became full)
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.11.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Gregor Mi 2014-07-01 19:04:03 UTC

At my parents computer (openSUSE 13.1) someone tried to copy a few small and medium sized files (about 120 MB) from USB stick (or mobile phone via USB) to local disk. I don't know what was done exactly but I can report the result:

Several "dolphin*.tmp" folders were present in /tmp with a total size of 9 GB (see [1] and [2]) which was too much for the system partition. I deleted the folders manually and the system was working fine again.

It happened only once yet and I did not yet try to reproduce it but I thought it is worth a report.

[1] http://wstaw.org/m/2014/07/01/plasma-desktopeE1898.png
[2] http://wstaw.org/m/2014/07/01/plasma-desktopBC1898.png

Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2014-07-04 13:34:36 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. To my knowledge, the Dolphin application itself does not create such temporary files and folders. Maybe it's done by KIO, a kioslave or some other code in kdelibs.

Can you look at the contents of these folders? Maybe that would give some hints where to look for the problem. Thanks for your help.

Moreover, it would be nice if you could tell us about your Dolphin/KDE SC version. Please never file bug reports without this information. Distro versions do not tell us much because users can use a wide range of different KDE SC releases with a single distro version, depending on what recent updates have been installed, or which additional package repositories are being used.

Comment 2 Gregor Mi 2014-07-05 09:12:26 UTC

> Can you look at the contents of these folders?

As indicated in [2] the folders are mostly empty but a few contain JPG and MOV files. Often they are duplicates (not in one folder but when looking at all folders). The big MOV file quickly add up to several GB. It looks like someone tried to copy the same image and video files multiple times.

> Dolphin/KDE SC version

Version 4.11.5
Unter KDE 4.11.5
32 Bit if that matters

[2] http://wstaw.org/m/2014/07/01/plasma-desktopBC1898.png

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2014-07-21 16:43:41 UTC

Cannot reproduce. Could you please check if you have any third-party service menu add-ons installed? It is possible that some of those scripts does not remove temporary files.

Comment 4 Gregor Mi 2014-11-23 18:08:40 UTC

Cannot reproduce neither. There were no additional service menu add-ons installed. Just the default openSUSE 13.1 ones.

Related:  Bug 340582 - "Free Space Notifier" should also report full root