Strange directories auto-created in home folder

[Frédéric]

I have installed a fresh F29 while keeping /home as it was from F28. I
am using the KDE Spin.
Empty directories with very strange names are created in home folders:
ls gives the following names:
# ls -1
'0'$'\306'
Bureau
Documents
Images
Modèles
Musique
'P'$'\334'
'p%'$'\373\331\325''U'
Public
Téléchargements
Vidéos

On another account I have:
# ls -1
'`'$'\327'
Bureau
Documents
Images
Modèles
Musique
Public
Téléchargements
Vidéos

What's that?

F

[Frédéric]

>  I have installed a fresh F29 while keeping /home as it was from F28.
> I
>  am using the KDE Spin.
>  Empty directories with very strange names are created in home folders:
>  '0'$'\306'
>  'P'$'\334'
>  'p%'$'\373\331\325''U'
>  '`'$'\327' 
One precision: the folders have permissions set to current user and group.

[Ed Greshko]

On 1/14/19 5:16 PM, Frédéric wrote:
> > I have installed a fresh F29 while keeping /home as it was from
> F28. I
> > am using the KDE Spin.
> > Empty directories with very strange names are created in home folders:
> > '0'$'\306'
> > 'P'$'\334'
> > 'p%'$'\373\331\325''U'
> > '`'$'\327'
>  One precision: the folders have permissions set to current user and group. 
Is this for old users?  Do you get those if you add a new user and login as the new user?

What is the contents of /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults


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[Max Pyziur]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Frédéric wrote:

> > I have installed a fresh F29 while keeping /home as it was from
> F28. I
> > am using the KDE Spin.
> > Empty directories with very strange names are created in home folders:
> > '0'$'\306'
> > 'P'$'\334'
> > 'p%'$'\373\331\325''U'
> > '`'$'\327'
>
>  One precision: the folders have permissions set to current user and group. 

Ditto on the strange directories.

They appear after you login into your window manager (is that the right 
term?); in my case it is Xfce.

Test:
Delete strange directories (they're empty AFAIK).

Logout.

<ctrl-alt-F2> (to open a terminal window)
Login
Check for strange directories in $HOME.

(None, right?)
<ctrl-alt-F1> (back to WM login)
Login

Check $HOME for strange directories.

Today mine looked like this:
drwxrwxr-x    2 pyz  pyz    4096 Jan 14 09:16
''$'\360'','$'\377''^^U'

fyi,

Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com


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[Branko Grubic]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:32:30 +0100
Frédéric <ufospoke(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I have installed a fresh F29 while keeping /home as it was from F28.
> I
>  am using the KDE Spin.
>  Empty directories with very strange names are created in home folders:
>  ls gives the following names:
>  # ls -1
>  '0'$'\306'
>  Bureau
>  Documents
>  Images
>  Modèles
>  Musique
>  'P'$'\334'
>  'p%'$'\373\331\325''U'
>  Public
>  Téléchargements
>  Vidéos
>  
>  On another account I have:
>  # ls -1
>  '`'$'\327'
>  Bureau
>  Documents
>  Images
>  Modèles
>  Musique
>  Public
>  Téléchargements
>  Vidéos
>  
>  What's that?
>   
Hi, 

Take a look at this bug report[1]

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665521

[Frédéric]

>  Is this for old users? 
yes

>   Do you get those if you add a new user and login as the new user?
I would need to try but my father cannot do that himself...

>  What is the contents of /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults 
it's all fine:
DESKTOP=Desktop
DOWNLOAD=Downloads
TEMPLATES=Templates
PUBLICSHARE=Public
DOCUMENTS=Documents
MUSIC=Music
PICTURES=Pictures
VIDEOS=Videos

F

[Ed Greshko]

On 1/15/19 3:54 AM, Frédéric wrote:
> > Is this for old users?
>  yes
>
> >  Do you get those if you add a new user and login as the new user?
>  I would need to try but my father cannot do that himself...
>
> > What is the contents of /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
>  it's all fine:
>  DESKTOP=Desktop
>  DOWNLOAD=Downloads
>  TEMPLATES=Templates
>  PUBLICSHARE=Public
>  DOCUMENTS=Documents
>  MUSIC=Music
>  PICTURES=Pictures
>  VIDEOS=Videos 
The workaround is to delete /etc/xdg/autostart/org.freedesktop.problems.applet.desktop (a
symlink) unitil new abrt packages are available.

This was noted in the BZ mentioned by Branko Grubic

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[Frédéric]

>  The workaround is to delete
> /etc/xdg/autostart/org.freedesktop.problems.applet.desktop (a
>  symlink) unitil new abrt packages are available. 
yes, I did that. Thanks!