[SOLVED] Wierd files in home directory

860lacov · 2023-02-17 10:28:41

$ ls
 bin        'GOG Games'   Obrazy      Pulpit                    Szablony                    Wideo
 Dokumenty   hcx          Pobrane     qemu                     ''$'\260\221\022\312\b''V'   wine
 git         Muzyka       Publiczny  ''$'\260''q[P'$'\226''U'  'VirtualBox VMs'
[jm@spin ~]
$ rm 
.bash_history    .dir_colors      .gtkrc-2.0       Obrazy/          q[PU           .viminfo
.bash_logout     Dokumenty/       hcx/             .pdb/            .rnd             VirtualBox VMs/
.bash_profile    .elinks/         .ipython/        .pki/            .ssh/            .vscode-oss/
.bashrc          .fonts.conf      .jupyter/        Pobrane/         .steam/          .wget-hsts
bin/             git/             .lesshst         Publiczny/       .steampath       Wideo/
.cache/          .gnome/          .local/          Pulpit/          .steampid        wine/
.cargo/          .gnupg/          .mono/           .pulse-cookie    Szablony/        
.chatgpt/        GOG Games/       .mozilla/        .python_history  .thunderbird/    
.config/         .gphoto/         Muzyka/          qemu/            ^R^HV

When I ls those files are:
''$'\260\221\022\312\b''V'
and
'$'\260''q[P'$'\226''U'

When I try rm + tab those files looks lie some symbols but here those are:
q[PU and ^R^HV

I don't know where did they come from. Not sure how to delete them

Last edited by 860lacov (2023-04-29 21:51:12)

Ferdinand · 2023-02-17 13:31:47

I don't know where the files come from, but I think you should check if they contain any data you want to keep before deleting them.

A simple way to give them more manageable file names would be to use detox.

I'd say something like

$ detox -v .

would do the trick.

If it renames any more files than those two, at least you'll know about it and can rename them back again

860lacov · 2023-02-17 14:15:01

Ferdinand wrote:

I don't know where the files come from, but I think you should check if they contain any data you want to keep before deleting them.
A simple way to give them more manageable file names would be to use detox.
I'd say something like
$ detox -v .
would do the trick.
If it renames any more files than those two, at least you'll know about it and can rename them back again

I managed to deal with those files with ranger. Dolphin couldn't.
With ranger, I looked inside those files.
There was [Kcrash] with some pid numbers (checked with htop - nothing)

It seeps that it was connected to dolphin. It crashed during umounting an encrypted drive.

F8 in ranger solved my problem, but thank you for the detox

Trilby · 2023-02-17 14:18:37

Find could also help. I suspect this invocation would list just those files (test this first):

find ~ -maxdepth 1 -regex "$HOME/[^a-zA-Z\.].*"

If that does list the odd files and no others, run it again with the -delete flag added.

(edit: too slow, this was crossposted w/ the previous comment)

Last edited by Trilby (2023-02-17 14:19:45)

860lacov · 2023-02-19 10:40:19

I marked topic as solved but the file (one this time came back)
Ranger shows:
name:
''$'\320''D'$'\a''m'$'\n''V'

ranger shows:

----- File Type Classification -----
data

and

find ~ -maxdepth 1 -regex "$HOME/[^a-zA-Z\.].*"

Don't work

When I open this in kate (from dolphin) it is empty.

Last edited by 860lacov (2023-02-19 10:41:14)

seth · 2023-02-19 12:46:45

What is the filesize?

od -x ''$'\320''D'$'\a''m'$'\n''V'

Is there a parallel windows?
(If not, I'd say some iso-8859-x encoded script writes into an indirect variable and has that single-quoted somewhere. But that's pure spreculation because of the constant "$")

schard · 2023-02-19 14:43:21

I'm starting to consider a bug in rsync: https://forum.archlinux.de/d/34744-nutz … t-gefuellt
Do you use rsync with some --remote-option?

Last edited by schard (2023-02-19 14:44:58)

860lacov · 2023-02-19 15:55:30

Few days ago I got rid of Windows. Details here How to install Windows 10 on SD Card when Arch is installed on SSD?
I don't have Windows anywhere currently.

I use rsync from time to time but only with -aAXvC on local drives.

od -x

od -x ''$'\320''D'$'\a''m'$'\n''V'
0000000 4b5b 7243 7361 5d68 650a 6578 c23d 5a23
0000020 0f0c 0a56 7061 6e70 6d61 3d65 23b2 0c5a
0000040 560f 610a 7070 6170 6874 0e3d 5a23 0f0c
0000060 0a56 6973 6e67 6c61 313d 0a31 6970 3d64
0000100 3139 3334 000a
0000105

seth · 2023-02-19 16:24:04

4b5b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B5B ??

Do all weird files start w/ those bytes?

Edit: "less" the file.
There's some assignment going on. "x=#" and "ppt=#".

Last edited by seth (2023-02-19 16:29:45)

860lacov · 2023-02-19 17:03:35

seth wrote:

4b5b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B5B ??
Do all weird files start w/ those bytes?
Edit: "less" the file.
There's some assignment going on. "x=#" and "ppt=#".

This is less output:

[KCrash]
exe=<C2>#Z^L^OV
appname=<B2>#Z^L^OV
apppath=^N#Z^L^OV
signal=11
pid=9143
<D0>D^Gm^JV (END)

ps -aux | grep 9134

jm          4338  0.0  0.0   9116  2608 pts/2    S+   18:01   0:00 grep --color=auto 9134

I have just one file.
Previous I deleted with ranger. With this one, I'm waiting.

ugjka · 2023-02-19 17:08:07

signal=11 is segfault of something

Trilby · 2023-02-19 17:19:04

The pid is no longer valid (for lookup w/ ps) as the process has crashed, but you'll likely be able to find that pid in the output of `coredumptctl list`, then you can inspect that coredump to see which program is crashing. Although that will not directly identify why you are getting crash reports in these oddly named files (with mangled content), it should give good leads.

EDIT: it seems there's a "KDE Crash Report tool" that generates files with this header.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-02-19 17:21:55)

860lacov · 2023-02-19 17:37:04

$ coredumpctl -S 2023-02-17 | grep 9143
Fri 2023-02-17 21:15:16 CET  9143 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /usr/lib/baloo_file_extractor  3.9M

It seems that it is KDE file indexer.

860lacov · 2023-02-21 21:19:28

I didn't want to bother you and decided to post on KDE forum.
No answer there and quite a big problem for me today.

Today, baloo made over 600 files in my home directory. I have no idea what to do next.

Last edited by 860lacov (2023-02-21 21:19:41)

seth · 2023-02-21 21:35:50

Is this you?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466161

860lacov · 2023-02-22 05:08:45

seth wrote:

Is this you?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466161

No it's not me. I started topic on regular forum. Not on bug related thing.
It seems that it's not a user mistake.

Thank you. I'll monitor this bug and update this post when something relevant comes up.

seth · 2023-02-22 07:20:34

It seems that it's not a user mistake.

Well, you installed KDE yourself, right?

You can btw. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Baloo# … he_indexer if you've no use for it.

Trilby · 2023-02-22 13:05:30

860lacov wrote:

It seems that it's not a user mistake.

Sure it is. As I've said before, all errors are PEBKAC errors, it's only a question of which keyboard and chair. In this case, it's not your keyboard and chair.

860lacov · 2023-02-22 20:58:14

seth wrote:

It seems that it's not a user mistake.
Well, you installed KDE yourself, right?
You can btw. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Baloo# … he_indexer if you've no use for it.

Yes, but I started with Arch...

I disabled it already. I didn't remember about baloo till file related surprises

Trilby wrote:

860lacov wrote:
It seems that it's not a user mistake.
Sure it is. As I've said before, all errors are PEBKAC errors, it's only a question of which keyboard and chair. In this case, it's not your keyboard and chair.

In my way of seeing things, I am a user and baloo developer is a developer (bold statement. I know )
If on the calculator I will miss the button or use wrong mathematical operation, I'll call it a user mistake.
But if 2+2 on this calculator = 6, then I'll call it a developer/factory mistake.

I'm aware that my English is far from perfect, but I can't believe that you didn't understand what I meant

Trilby · 2023-02-22 21:08:14

I understood what you meant (your English is great), I was just inserting my own (attempt at) humor.

860lacov · 2023-02-22 21:15:25

Trilby wrote:

I understood what you meant (your English is great), I was just inserting my own (attempt at) humor.

I didn't know a PEBKAC expression. Now I want a T-shirt with it

I'll track KDE bugs and update this topic if something relevant comes up.

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