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nightmadlad

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Registered: 2026-03-02

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] Accidentally forgot a /

Hey guys, new here. Im having some issues currently with kded6, but thats not important. I wanted to clear my /coredump directory so I could have it clean and analyze the reproduced crashes, but I did not want to delete the previous dumps, since they may hold a clue to my issue.

Anyway, I made the decision to move the files around, but in my genius I accidentally forgot a dash (/)

sudo mv /var/lib/systemd/coredump* ~/Desktop/backup

I panicked when I opened the empty backup, expecting a myriad of coredump files, and found the directory there, so I quickly moved it back and only mv'd the files

sudo mv ~/Desktop/backup/* /var/lib/systemd/
sudo mv /var/lib/systemd/coredump/* ~/Desktop/backup

im no longer getting kded6 crash reports as I did before, and from what I see, the ownership of the dir seems fine:

[nml@archlinux ~]$ ls -ld /var/lib/systemd/coredump
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar  3 05:17 /var/lib/systemd/coredump

my question is, did I screw anything up?

Last edited by nightmadlad (2026-03-03 08:11:10)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,365

Re: [SOLVED] Accidentally forgot a /

"Slash" - a dash looks like "-"

my question is, did I screw anything up?

No, the path would have been recreated w/ the next coredump anyway but you also restored the correct state.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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