/tmp isn't cleaned up on boot/startup any longer

[H.-R. Oberhage]

Binary package hint: sysvinit

After upgrading from 9.04 (jaunty) to 9.10 (karmic), /tmp isn't cleaned up any longer when booting.

This used to be done with a script mountall-bootclean.sh and its helpers coming from package 'initscripts'. Now it is missing there, but it also isn't done by the new 'startup' package.

Maybe this has to do with me upgrading to instead of installing 9.10, but probably not! I see no script with the intention to clean up/empty /tmp any longer. Thus /tmp is cluttering up now.

Please re-integrate the clearing of /tmp again. Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 14:55:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu11
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: sysvinit
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Babstar (debian-lists)]

I can confirm this behavior, my /etc/defaults/rcS contains TMPTIME=0 & /tmp is not cleared on reboot.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please attach your /etc/fstab files

[H.-R. Oberhage (oberhage)]

SInce you asked for it, here is my /etc/fstab. Fairly common I'd guess. The only thing is that I'm dedicating a harddisk partition to /tmp.