On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Elias Assmann wrote:
> It seems that Iceweasel (aka Firefox) is replacing my ~/.config/fish/.
>
> > ls -l .config/fish/
> ls: cannot access .config/fish/aborted-session-ping: No such file or
> directory
> total 36
> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? aborted-session-ping
> drwx------ 8 assman ag-avp 2048 Apr 1 00:00 archived/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 assman ag-avp 31781 Apr 20 10:52 fish_history
> -rw------- 1 assman ag-avp 137 Apr 20 00:00 session-state.json
> -rw------- 1 assman ag-avp 51 Sep 7 2015 state.json
>
> Note: The read error on ‘aborted-session-ping’, might be due to network
> file system issues. Earlier it showed up as
>
> -rw------- 0 assman ag-avp 10175 Apr 20 07:49 aborted-session-ping
>
> That is, ~/.config/fish/ looks just like the Firefox directory
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILE/datareporting/. (Except for ‘fish_history’,
> of course.)
>
> Our system makes nightly backups of the home directories, which means
> that not only do I have a backup (whew!), I can also verify that
> yesterday, things were still “normal”. In fact, the PC was turned on
> and I remained logged in during the night, with both fish and Firefox
> running.
>
> In the morning, the fish instances that I had open lost their
> configuration the first time I pressed ‘enter’ (e.g., they reverted to
> the standard prompt).
>
> Also, ~/.config/fish/ is being updated every now and then as reported by
> ‘ls -ld’, though I see no changes to the contents (except for
> ‘fish_history’ being updated, of course, but that does not trigger the
> change to the directory's time stamp).
>
> Any ideas what could be happening here?
That looks an awful lot like file system corruption to me.
David Adam
zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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