Control: forcemerge -1 851500 On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:20:05 +0100 Alexander Bessman <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: gnome-settings-daemon > Version: 3.14.2-1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > ssh-agent and gpg-agent stores sockets in /tmp, which must be session > persistent in order for these applications to function correctly. However, > after several hours of system uptime gnome-settings-daemon deletes these > sockets. At this point, keys managed by ssh-agent and gpg-agent cannot be > used, and ssh-agent and gpg-agent must be restarted to become functional > again, and keys must be re-added. > > I confirmed that gnome-settings-daemon is indeed responsible for deleting > these sockets by watching ssh-agent's socket with auditd. Excerpt from > /var/log/audit/audit.log follows below: [...]
gnome-settings-daemon has a tmp-cleaner controlled through GNOME's Privacy settings. But as you can see, its expiry logic is broken. You could turn it off and use other means to clean /tmp and /var/tmp. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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