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[Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I realized today there's a strange buch of files under "/", which
> shouldn't be there:
>
> % ls -l /
> total 6.1G
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  779 Dec 21 19:18 codeset.m4
> -rw-------   1 root root 772K Nov 26  2012 core
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.0K Dec 21 19:18 fcntl-o.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  15K Dec 21 19:18 gettext.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  854 Dec 21 19:18 glibc21.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  797 Dec 21 19:18 glibc2.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 7.4K Dec 21 19:18 iconv.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.3K Dec 21 19:18 intdiv0.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  923 Dec 21 19:18 intldir.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  12K Dec 21 19:18 intl.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.4K Dec 21 19:18 intlmacosx.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.1K Dec 21 19:18 intmax.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  953 Dec 21 19:18 inttypes_h.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.2K Dec 21 19:18 inttypes-pri.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.3K Dec 21 19:18 lcmessage.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.4K Dec 21 19:18 lib-ld.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  33K Dec 21 19:18 lib-link.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 8.3K Dec 21 19:18 lib-prefix.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.2K Dec 21 19:18 lock.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 4.4K Dec 21 19:18 longlong.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.3K Dec 21 19:18 nls.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  19K Dec 21 19:18 po.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.5K Dec 21 19:18 printf-posix.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.9K Dec 21 19:18 progtest.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2.9K Dec 21 19:18 size_max.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  929 Dec 21 19:18 stdint_h.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  14K Dec 21 19:18 threadlib.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1.1K Dec 21 19:18 uintmax_t.m4
> ...
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.2K Dec 21 19:18 visibility.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  747 Dec 21 19:18 wchar_t.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  982 Dec 21 19:18 wint_t.m4
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  434 Dec 21 19:18 xsize.m4
>
> Several of them match what some spells provide, but I have no clue how
> they got in "/", neither if it's safe to remove them.
>
> % gaze from /longlong.m4
> gettext-0.18.3.1: /usr/share/aclocal/longlong.m4
>
> % gaze from /core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/geometry/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/geometry/multi/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/log/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/phoenix/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/spirit/home/classic/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/spirit/home/phoenix/core
> boost-1_55_0: /usr/include/boost/xpressive/detail/core
> directfb-1.7.1: /usr/include/directfb-internal/core
> irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/core
> irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/fe-common/core
> irssi-0.8.15: /usr/include/irssi/src/irc/core
> linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/drivers/memstick/core
> linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/drivers/mmc/core
> linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/net/core
> linux-3.12.6: /lib/modules/3.12.6/kernel/sound/core
> numpy-1.8.0: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core
>
> But they exist in the directory they're meant to be.  So I'm not sure
> what are those files doing there...
>
> Any hints?  Also, would it be considered safe to just plain removing them?


Noticing most files are from 12/21, then I looked for the spells casted then:

% ls -d /var/state/sorcery/tablet/*/20131221*
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/bdftopcf/20131221180631/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxvmc/20131221190828/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/castfs/20131221010550/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxxf86dga/20131221190843/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/coreutils/20131221040831/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxxf86vm/20131221190857/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/font-util/20131221180644/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/linux/20131221010135/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/fuse/20131221010521/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/lm_sensors/20131221010620/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/git/20131221184855/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/lndir/20131221181418/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/glproto/20131221180653/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/lxml/20131221040943/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/gnupg/20131221040108/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/makedepend/20131221181432/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/gtk+3/20131221190436/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/mkfontdir/20131221181454/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/imagemagick/20131221041756/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/mkfontscale/20131221181442/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libdrm/20131221180748/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/mpd/20131221032033/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libfontenc/20131221180544/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/ncmpcpp/20131221032120/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libfs/20131221180809/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/ntfs-3g/20131221010841/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libice/20131221180830/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/pcre/20131221040210/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libpciaccess/20131221180710/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/pixman/20131221181024/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libreoffice/20131221031121/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/pycurl/20131221032133/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/librsvg2/20131221190550/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/qemu/20131221035512/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libsm/20131221181041/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/rgb/20131221190909/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libx11/20131221185248/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/rtorrent/20131221035924/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxau/20131221180845/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/ruby-2.0/20131221040614/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxaw3d/20131221194702/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/videoproto/20131221181134/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxcursor/20131221185415/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/vorbis-tools/20131221040009/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxext/20131221185316/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xauth/20131221190921/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxfixes/20131221185359/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xhost/20131221190955/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxi/20131221190616/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xinit/20131221190944/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxinerama/20131221185429/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xprop/20131221191909/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxmu/20131221190726/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xproto/20131221180513/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxrandr/20131221185446/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xrandr/20131221191921/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxres/20131221190741/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xrdb/20131221191933/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxt/20131221190701/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xset/20131221191945/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxtst/20131221190756/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xtrans/20131221180523/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/libxv/20131221190811/
/var/state/sorcery/tablet/xwd/20131221191956/

Still I don't see gettext there in the list.  So I have no clue...

Thanks,


-- 
Javier.