Recently I discovered a file named _BVOE9~A in my home directory. The interesting thing is the file does not show up in a ‘ls -a’ nor when booting into Parted Magic and mounting the partition to do a ‘ls -a’. The file however does show up when I share my home partition with my Windows 10 virtual machine.
The file appears to contain debugging info for KDE. See below.
file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.oxygen/contents/splash/Splash.qml:89: ReferenceError: bottomRect is not defined
file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.oxygen/contents/splash/Splash.qml:88: ReferenceError: bottomRect is not defined
Loading stage "initial" 833
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Initializing "kcm_style" : "kcminit_style"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/ksysguard.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/desktopnotifier.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/filenamesearchmodule.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/kscreen.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/networkstatus.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/keyboard.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/statusnotifierwatcher.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/networkwatcher.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/freespacenotifier.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/appmenu.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/khotkeys.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/bluedevil.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/baloosearchmodule.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/networkmanagement.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/ktimezoned.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/soliduiserver.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/remotedirnotify.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/recentdocumentsnotifier.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/device_automounter.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/remotenotifier.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/solidautoeject.so"
kf5.kded: No X-KDE-DBus-ServiceName found in "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kded/proxyscout.so"
Initializing "kded_touchpad" : "kcminit_touchpad"
Initializing "kcm_kgamma" : "kcminit_kgamma"
Initializing "kcm_input" : "kcminit_mouse"
Initializing "kcm_access" : "kcminit_access"
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Configuring Lock Action
kf5.kcoreaddons.kaboutdata: Could not initialize the equivalent properties of Q*Application: no instance (yet) existing.
ksmserver: "/run/user/1001/KSMserver"
ksmserver: KSMServer: SetAProc_loc: conn 0 , prot= local , file= @/tmp/.ICE-unix/7405
ksmserver: KSMServer: SetAProc_loc: conn 1 , prot= unix , file= /tmp/.ICE-unix/7405
ksmserver: KSMServer::restoreSession "saved at previous logout"
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.13'
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/baloo_file.desktop"
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/kdeconnectd.desktop"
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/krunner.desktop"
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/plasmashell.desktop"
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop"
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/xembedsniproxy.desktop"
ksmserver: Autostart 0 done
detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut keys
Session path: "/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32"
ksmserver: Kcminit phase 1 done
ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop"
ksmserver: Autostart 1 done
Does anyone know what this file is and why it and a second several months older do not show even when using a Linux boot DVD? (My Parted Magic boot disk was created on openSUSE 13.2 prior to reformatting my system partition for 42.3)
My Info:
openSUSE 42.3
KDE Plasma 5.8.7
Linux 4.4.114-42-default #1 SMP Tue Feb 6 10:58:10 UTC 2018 (b6ee9ae) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Intel i7-5820K CPU
32GB RAM