/tmp is filling up due to gnome-terminal log files

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • When using gnome-terminal log files are stored in /tmp/vte* however these files are unseen to the general user because they are in a deleted state. In #lsof | grep gnome-ter something similar to the following out put:

    gnome-ter 24040     hward   25u      REG               0,19     1283   26129698 /tmp/vteXAA8UY (deleted)
gnome-ter 24040     hward   26u      REG               0,19     1056   26129699 /tmp/vteMBB8UY (deleted)
gnome-ter 24040     hward   27u      REG               0,19      512   26129700 /tmp/vteXJC8UY (deleted)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • gnome-terminal-2.31.3-11.el6_6.x86_64
  • vte-0.25.1-9.el6.x86_64.rpm

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