[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#728816: Bug#728816: systemd-tmpfiles not cleaning /tmp is symlink

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Ritesh,

Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> writes:
> If /tmp is a symlink, it turns out that systmed is not doing a
> cleanup.
Are you 100% sure that this is not caused by your configuration
modification below?

> --------------
> systemd-delta:
> --------------
> [OVERRIDDEN] /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf → /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
>
> --- /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf	2013-09-23 17:14:17.000000000 +0530
> +++ /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf	2013-08-30 16:55:13.258434369 +0530
> @@ -1,18 +1,12 @@
>  #  This file is part of systemd.
>  #
>  #  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> -#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
> -#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
> +#  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> +#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>  #  (at your option) any later version.
>  
>  # See tmpfiles.d(5) for details
>  
>  # Clear tmp directories separately, to make them easier to override
> -D /tmp 1777 root root -
> -#d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d
> -
> -# Exclude namespace mountpoints created with PrivateTmp=yes
> -x /tmp/systemd-private-*
> -x /var/tmp/systemd-private-*
> -X /tmp/systemd-private-*/tmp
> -X /var/tmp/systemd-private-*/tmp
> +#D /tmp 1777 root root -
Commenting out that line disables /tmp cleanup.

In case the problem still persists after you fix the configuration, can
you please attach /tmp/strace.log after running the following command?

strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log -s 2048 systemd-tmpfiles --clean

Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Michael