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Random file keeps displaying in home folder

Asked by Jason Odoom

  Their is a random file that keeps displaying in my Home folder. I have deleted it once and it has decided to come back, this time with a second copy. I will like to know the source and remove it from my system. The file is called:

58EDFB32D3A945441AFFABA1F9FE2F3768C3A9BB.13.0.767.1_service_ipc

 It's copy is: 58EDFB32D3A945441AFFABA1F9FE2F3768C3A9BB.13.0.772.0_service_ipc

 When I try to open one of them it displays: " Could not display 8EDFB32....D3A945441.... There is no application installed for socket files

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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David Oxland (doxland) said : 		#2

I am faced with the same question

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Andrey Kolchenko (komex) said : 		#3

I have the same file too (Debian 6). What is it?

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#4

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:06 PM, komex <<email address hidden>
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> I have the same file too (Debian 6). What is it?
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Andrey Kolchenko (komex) said : 		#5

Some times ago I didn't see this file. And I would to know what is it.

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#6

An IPC is an InterProcess Communication, in your case a socket, i.e. a pipe between two processes.
It's strange such a socket appears in home folder. Try to guess which software create it.
The command:
  lsof <file name>
could help.

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#7

Got this output:

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
chrome 2152 jasono 41u unix 0x00000000 0t0 19064 58EDFB32D3A945441AFFABA1F9FE2F3768C3A9BB.12.0.742.112_service_ipc
chrome 2152 jasono 58u unix 0x00000000 0t0 22905 58EDFB32D3A945441AFFABA1F9FE2F3768C3A9BB.12.0.742.112_service_ipc

 Turns out it was from Chrome. Why is it doing this and how can I stop it?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#8

Post issue at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chrome
If you get no answer, post again in this forum, but they should be more able to find a solution.

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#9

Thanks delance, that solved my question.