Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory

For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-tmpfiles-purge-drama

[davidbepo]

god, i hate how this mastodontic piece of shit is basically mandatory now

[dragon321]

Prepare your popcorn, comments gotta be fun.

[uxmkt]

Don't tell me how much you dislike the project, just enjoy this meme.

[user1]

Lately I'm seeing a lot of people somehow relating systemd to Mastodon. I don't understand what is it all about. Can someone explain?

[davidbepo]

Lately I'm seeing a lot of people somehow relating systemd to Mastodon. I don't understand what is it all about. Can someone explain?

not my intention

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastodontic

basically shit is huge and all encompassing, which is bad given how insanely buggy it is

[usta]

Haters gona hate , thats how techonogy will be improved. If you dont like systemd just dont use it

[Volta]

Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:

So an option that is literally documented as saying "all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted", that you knew nothing about, sounded like a "good idea"? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?

Microsoft level of stupidity achieved! Dumbisticles must be proud. EDIT: sorry, article doesn't explain the real culprit. It's not the systemd problem and developer is right.

#post1471919

[npwx]

"Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh"

That guy sounds like a real dick. Maybe stick to established principles of software development of at least confirming before you destroy someone's data? Just a thought eh.

[toves]

systemd-tmpfiles --purge

Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?

And Sig. Boccassi looks up the rather exhausting manual pages for systemd or like software?
If it were systemd-tmpfiles.d --purge he might have more of a point.

Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh

Ditto. At the risk of channelling Donald Rumsfeld: there are commands that you don't know you [now] know nothing about.
Seems to me that insuperable, insufferable arrogance is a prerequisite for working on this Frankenstein's monster.
_{Hint: only use systemd to [re]start, stop, reload processes - eschew everything else as it mostly doesn't work ["yet"] and when does - not in any way you might rationally expect.}