Public bug reported: On lubuntu 14.10, after a boot problem described here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1392637 I was trying to find out what generated a huge number of files in /tmp.
Although it is difficult to even ls into this directory. "find ." ended up starting to list some files (deleting those files is being difficult too). I ended up looking at one of them and it seems that cups (or the lubuntu default printer assistant) is the culprit. user:fulltmp$ file ./546285ff50f53 ./546285ff50f53: symbolic link to `/etc/cups/ppd/freebox.ppd' What I did is the following : I tried to add a network printer (named freebox) using the printer assistant, this gave me some errors such as "cups failed with the following message : Success" (if memory serves). The printer would not be added, so I ended up adding it directly through the cups web interface, which worked. Sorry I do not know which step could have generated this "huge" number of files. Am deleting them as we speak using an rsync trick I found here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37329/efficiently-delete-large- directory-containing-thousands-of-files (but it's still been a few hours). The only size "evaluation" I have of this fulltmp is through "ls -alh /" which reports 262M. 262M of symlinks, anyone estimate how many symlinks that makes ? ** Affects: cups (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1392725 Title: cups (or lubuntu printer assistant) fills /tmp with a huge number of files Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On lubuntu 14.10, after a boot problem described here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1392637 I was trying to find out what generated a huge number of files in /tmp. Although it is difficult to even ls into this directory. "find ." ended up starting to list some files (deleting those files is being difficult too). I ended up looking at one of them and it seems that cups (or the lubuntu default printer assistant) is the culprit. user:fulltmp$ file ./546285ff50f53 ./546285ff50f53: symbolic link to `/etc/cups/ppd/freebox.ppd' What I did is the following : I tried to add a network printer (named freebox) using the printer assistant, this gave me some errors such as "cups failed with the following message : Success" (if memory serves). The printer would not be added, so I ended up adding it directly through the cups web interface, which worked. Sorry I do not know which step could have generated this "huge" number of files. Am deleting them as we speak using an rsync trick I found here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37329/efficiently-delete- large-directory-containing-thousands-of-files (but it's still been a few hours). The only size "evaluation" I have of this fulltmp is through "ls -alh /" which reports 262M. 262M of symlinks, anyone estimate how many symlinks that makes ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1392725/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
