Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

[Andreas Fink <finkandreas@web.de>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100
Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris <chris@osugisakae.com> wrote:
> > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes?
>
> I've also had this happen a few times over the last months, with error
> mails about SDDM tmp files from cron. Just wanted to pipe in and say
> that I don't have either rkhunter or keepassxc, so they must be
> unrelated. Running on openbox.
>
> I also have the 'unable to open new GUI apps' problem on a Plasma
> machine now and then. I had not connected the two, but maybe the same
> root cause.
>
> Regards,
> Arve
>

It's the anacron job in /etc/cron.daily/systemd-tmpfiles-clean that
cleans files in the tmp folder.
There has also been a news item about the change on November 21st 2022.

You might have to adapt the files that should not be cleaned by the
automatic cleanup (or disable automatic cleanup).

Cheers
Andreas