Mysterious empty files with garbled unicode names in home directory?

when i logged on today i was greeted by some strange files in my home directory, two of them. named “��#�gU” and “�;�X�U” in dolphin (without quotes), and in zsh, using ls they appear as: [‘’$‘\340\313’‘#’$‘\362’‘gU’] and [‘’$‘\340’‘;’$‘\367’‘X’$‘\370’‘U’]. (i added the square brackets for this post).

each file is listed as 0 bytes in size
using ls -l shows perms on the files as: -rw-r–r-- for both files

trying to rm the files errors saying “rm: cannot remove ‘$\340$\313#$\362gU’: No such file or directory”
trying to delete them or rename them in dolphin leads to simmilar errors.

using touch on the files creates a new file that doesnt match the name given to it. leading me to believe the file names are some sort of escape sequence.

any idea what these are and how/if i should remove them?

Backup.
Run Timeshift.
Check logs (journalctl) journalctl -p3 -xb- is nice.
Check disk health/SMART data.

After this, if you can’t delete them you’ll need to reinstall I imagine.

I switched to BTRFS recently (which is a cow system) though I haven’t had any corrupted ext4 problems for a good few years…

boot disk (the one which also has the home directory) appears to be in good health, showing 0 bad sectors. i am currently using ext4. my other disk is also in relatively good health, with 72 bad sectors, not bad for a 10 year old hdd with 4 years of power on hours.

i am currently executing the backup now, good idea on that one.

i really dont want to have to reinstall manjaro yet again (ive done so several times in the past when i messed things up playing with the configuration to get things how i wanted them), this time i actually have files on here that matter and very little free space on my other computers… not to mention all the configuration and tweaking ive done on here…

had to look up what a cow system is, sounds clever.

the command snipped you gave for the logs didnt work however. so i had to modify the args and then scrub through til i found the day in question…

looks like baloo_file crashed that day. but it also crashed on many other days. i dont know what makes this day special.

log from that day:

-- Boot 9a440ea9ef3945aeb50d0e24d023444e --
Jun 15 10:28:51 Blufox kernel: x86/cpu: VMX (outside TXT) disabled by BIOS
Jun 15 10:29:10 Blufox nmbd[960]: [2022/06/15 10:29:10.554494,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd.c:901(main)
Jun 15 10:29:10 Blufox nmbd[960]:   nmbd version 4.16.1 started.
Jun 15 10:29:10 Blufox nmbd[960]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
Jun 15 10:29:11 Blufox smbd[971]: [2022/06/15 10:29:11.199511,  0] ../../source3/smbd/server.c:1741(main)
Jun 15 10:29:11 Blufox smbd[971]:   smbd version 4.16.1 started.
Jun 15 10:29:11 Blufox smbd[971]:   Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2022
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]: [2022/06/15 10:29:35.299008,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:398(become_local_master_stage2)
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]:   *****
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]: 
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]:   Samba name server BLUFOX is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet [ip redacted]
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]: 
Jun 15 10:29:35 Blufox nmbd[960]:   *****
Jun 15 10:33:59 Blufox systemd-coredump[1433]: [🡕] Process 1221 (baloo_file) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                               
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                                               Stack trace of thread 1431:
                                               #0  0x00007f4dea931ef9 n/a (liblmdb.so + 0x6ef9)
                                               #1  0x00007f4dea932644 n/a (liblmdb.so + 0x7644)
                                               #2  0x00007f4dea932c50 mdb_get (liblmdb.so + 0x7c50)
                                               #3  0x00007f4debde2bc5 _ZN5Baloo12IdFilenameDB3getEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0x11bc5)
                                               #4  0x00007f4debde3188 _ZNK5Baloo13DocumentUrlDB3getEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0x12188)
                                               #5  0x00007f4debdef968 _ZNK5Baloo11Transaction11documentUrlEy (libKF5BalooEngine.so.5 + 0x1e968)
                                               #6  0x000055bc55a2cb5d n/a (baloo_file + 0x1bb5d)
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                                               Stack trace of thread 1277:
                                               #0  0x00007f4deb48a5f1 pselect (libc.so.6 + 0x1085f1)
                                               #1  0x00007f4de9af0524 n/a (libusbmuxd-2.0.so.6 + 0x2524)
                                               #2  0x00007f4de9af18a9 n/a (libusbmuxd-2.0.so.6 + 0x38a9)
                                               #3  0x00007f4deb40e54d n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c54d)
                                               #4  0x00007f4deb493874 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x111874)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 1235:
                                               #0  0x00007f4deb487c3f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x105c3f)
                                               #1  0x00007f4dea11bf68 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xaaf68)
                                               #2  0x00007f4dea0c3392 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x52392)
                                               #3  0x00007f4debb8427c _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (>
                                               #4  0x00007f4debb322ec _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2862ec)
                                               #5  0x00007f4deb99352f _ZN7QThread4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0xe752f)
                                               #6  0x00007f4debe2575a n/a (libQt5DBus.so.5 + 0x2375a)
                                               #7  0x00007f4deb99035a n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0xe435a)
                                               #8  0x00007f4deb40e54d n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c54d)
                                               #9  0x00007f4deb493874 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0x111874)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 1221:
                                               #0  0x00007f4deb45abc7 getdents64 (libc.so.6 + 0xd8bc7)
                                               #1  0x00007f4deb45ac75 readdir64 (libc.so.6 + 0xd8c75)
                                               #2  0x00007f4debae81ab n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x23c1ab)
                                               #3  0x00007f4deba80cb4 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x1d4cb4)
                                               #4  0x00007f4deba81719 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x1d5719)
                                               #5  0x00007f4deba81be5 _ZN12QDirIteratorC2ERK7QString6QFlagsIN4QDir6FilterEES3_INS_12IteratorFlagEE (libQt5C>
                                               #6  0x000055bc55a2f114 n/a (baloo_file + 0x1e114)
                                               #7  0x000055bc55a329d5 n/a (baloo_file + 0x219d5)
                                               #8  0x000055bc55a3b2b9 n/a (baloo_file + 0x2a2b9)
                                               #9  0x00007f4debb5d430 _ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2b1430)
                                               #10 0x00007f4debb39b0c _ZN16QCoreApplication15notifyInternal2EP7QObjectP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x28db0c)
                                               #11 0x00007f4debb3a623 _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData (libQt5Core.s>
                                               #12 0x00007f4debb80448 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d4448)
                                               #13 0x00007f4dea0c5c6b g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x54c6b)
                                               #14 0x00007f4dea11c001 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xab001)
                                               #15 0x00007f4dea0c3392 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x52392)
                                               #16 0x00007f4debb8427c _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (>
                                               #17 0x00007f4debb322ec _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2862ec)
                                               #18 0x00007f4debb3cdd9 _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x290dd9)
                                               #19 0x000055bc55a1fdab n/a (baloo_file + 0xedab)
                                               #20 0x00007f4deb3ab290 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x29290)
                                               #21 0x00007f4deb3ab34a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2934a)
                                               #22 0x000055bc55a20245 n/a (baloo_file + 0xf245)
                                               ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Jun 15 10:34:07 Blufox pulseaudio[1279]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out>
Jun 15 15:33:10 Blufox dolphin[11168]: inotify_add_watch(/boot/efi) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 16 01:55:44 Blufox nmbd[960]: [2022/06/16 01:55:44.635350,  0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd.c:59(terminate)
Jun 16 01:55:44 Blufox nmbd[960]:   Got SIGTERM: going down...

maybe those ‘mysterious’ files are from baloo crashing during indexing … disable baloo - go to system settings/search/file search - and uncheck all options, click apply …

unchecked all and deleted index.
it didnt work sadly, they are still there.

i used to do a lot of networked file transfers over samba (i use sshfs now which is a lot more reliable), it used to crash a lot, could that be related?

After you have a backup:

While running from live-manjaro:

  • rename the directory containing the garbage to “_old”
  • create an new directory with proper naming
  • with rsync (!) copy/move alle “good” files from “_old/*” to the newly created dir
  • (if you are not sure, test it now)
  • delete “_old” (or what could be deleted of it)

Andreas :footprints:

yes it could be it from the samba shares …
can you cut those files and put them into an empty folder and then delete the folder

i get the same kind of error as when i tried to delete them when doing so from dolphin, but using mv worked, surprisingly. deleting the folder also worked after that, thanks!

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