/root directory cleared without warning

[bananowy_bartosz]

Hi!
I have a clearlinux install as a host for some VMs, and recently after months of operation, I noticed that my /root directory was cleared, why? I have some SSH keys and some stuff for root user and now it’s all gone, is it some sort of “normal upgrade” process or was a side effect of “repair command”?

I’m quite confident that I didn’t cleared this directory by myself, but this naturally can be the case. But still, I need to ask if there are some normal system features behind this.

[Ogu]

Hi!

It’s a known bug : see there:

Swupd 41340 upgrade automatically deleted contents of /root

i SSH-ed into my machine this morning after stopping work last night, to find the contents of my /root directory completely wiped. this is absolutely insane and i’m still trying to figure out how this is possible. there were no prints in dmesg, nothing in journalctl besides an update from “version 41300 to version 41340”, the disk and partition are fine besides the root directory. only the following remains “. … .bash_history .ssh”. the box is on a home LAN. the idea of intrusion makes no s…

Unfortunately this kind of bugs are too much recurrent to make CL my daily driver.

[bananowy_bartosz]

I have made a backup of everything so I didn’t loose any important things, but yea… those kind of bugs definitely exclude CL as a mature system…