Re: beagle-thunderbird and tmp files?

Udo van den Heuvel <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:36:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.dashboard.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
D Bera wrote:
>> I am running beagle-thunderbird 0.3.8-13 on my FC10 system.
>> I experienced loads (10's of thousands) of tmp files in /tmp containing
>> headers of old email messages after installing beagle-thunderbird.
>>
>> Are these files coming from beagle-thunderbird?
>> If so:
>> Why are there so many?
>> Why aren't they cleaned up?
>> They interfered with the working of the system!
>>
>> if not: What could be the source?
>> How could I find out?
> 
> Someone recently reported a similar problem in one of the bugs. We
> need more information to trace the cause. Roughly ... yes, the tmp
> files are coming from beagle-thunderbird. But they are supposed to be
> cleaned up right after they are indexed - which should happen within
> minutes after they are created, if not seconds.
> 
> I am kind of busy this week; so if you do not hear from anyone else, I
> will ask for some more information which can help me trace out the
> cause. Possibly next weekend at the earliest.

I will have a small holiday next week so I can invest some time into 
this issue if you want more info.
BTW: I see no info in dmesg and/or messages.

The rootfs is 1GB in size of which 500G or so is free.
With about 50000 tmp files after last night I got issues:
The screensaver wouldn't present me the login screen.
On text console login I got errors about `unable to create /tmp/blabla` 
(paraphrased).
The filesystem wasn't full.
Maybe too many files?

After cleaning up (rm -f /tmp/tmp*tmp) I had to restart xorg (!?) but 
all was functional then.

Please let me know how to proceed to fix this nasty bug.

Thanks,
Udo