Nautilus doesn't clean up temporary files from cancelled file copies

[DavidBriscoe]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I copied a large file from one partition to another using Nautilus, but I cancelled the copy before it completed. There are incomplete copies (.goutputstream-2XZIRV) in the destination directory.

(I actually copied the same file many times because I was testing Bug #553256 so I have 13 of these files totalling 4.6 GB!)

This issue is mentioned in this 2009 mailinglist post:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gvfs-list/2009-April/msg00009.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 3 13:24:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

Please have a look at bug #984785.

We believe that the .goutput files are to do with lightdm, so your experience is interesting. Can you remember if, when you cancelled your copies, you logged out, restarted or crashed?

[DavidBriscoe (idbrii)]

I'm fairly certain I didn't log out and in. (Maybe I did after the
first occurrence, but I recall doing this several times in
succession.)

I doubt it was lightdm: I reported this on Maverick (10.10). According
to this link [1], lightdm became default in 11.10. I don't tend to run
alphas or nondefault core software.

I also do clean installs for each upgrade and haven't noticed this
issue recently (on precise). (Although, I only noticed before because
I ran out of disk space.)

[1]: http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Paddy Landau <email address hidden> wrote:
> Please have a look at bug #984785.
>
> We believe that the .goutput files are to do with lightdm, so your
> experience is interesting. Can you remember if, when you cancelled your
> copies, you logged out, restarted or crashed?
>
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[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

I believe that you are correct about LightDM being introduced in 11.10.

Thank you for your extra information. It should be helpful to the developers in finding out where this bug is happening.

[DavidBriscoe (idbrii)]

Looks like I was wrong about this no longer occurring:

~$ ls -lt --full-time .goutputstream-*
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-11-01 19:37:04.192848462 -0700
.goutputstream-ZKZLNW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-10-28 20:53:06.375847725 -0700
.goutputstream-7L5OMW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-10-18 20:23:00.379422660 -0700
.goutputstream-4DXOMW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-10-05 08:17:53.685007202 -0700
.goutputstream-76VALW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-09-20 21:12:29.225603184 -0700
.goutputstream-MTAXKW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-09-15 22:03:45.465563151 -0700
.goutputstream-C1MLKW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-09-03 09:59:17.137958626 -0700
.goutputstream-PDE2JW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-08-27 21:12:04.438034567 -0700
.goutputstream-6INOJW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-08-18 09:12:29.925476010 -0700
.goutputstream-Z50OIW
-rw------- 1 pydave pydave 0 2012-08-02 05:52:34.417474564 -0700
.goutputstream-K0AGIW

All the files in /var/log/installer/ have a timestamp of Aug 1, so I
guess that's when I did my clean install of Precise?

I have no idea when I moved these files. It seems my issue has been
improved -- the files are now 0 bytes.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Paddy Landau <email address hidden> wrote:
> I believe that you are correct about LightDM being introduced in 11.10.
>
> Thank you for your extra information. It should be helpful to the
> developers in finding out where this bug is happening.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
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> Title:
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[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

That's the sort of thing other people and I are getting.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream commited a fix to git if somebody wants to try the change:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=afdb2abb13896a3d5caecabd2f7158e8047f9956