Temp files clogging up the /tmp and gallery-dl errors out

[doubl-eanti-anteater]

A week ago when I was backing up my files into my backup machine, I noticed that I didn't get any new pictures from gallery-dl.
I looked at my log file and I see nothing, no new logs files.
I went to my laptop and looked at the console.

[PYI-1313:ERROR] Failed to extract cryptography/hazmat/bindings/_rust.abi3.so: decompression resulted in return code -1!
[PYI-1313:ERROR] Failed to extract entry: cryptography/hazmat/bindings/_rust.abi3.so.

I looked around for _rust.abi3.so and saw that it was located in /tpm.
On /tpm was mounted a 478M tmpfs (Temporary File System) that is 100% full.
I thought the problem is something I installed months ago and forgot about it.
So I deleted everything; reinstalled arch-linux, lxqt, yay, gallery-dl, yt-dlp, konsole and put my script back in place.
Everything worked fine at first but tomorrow the same problem happened again.
Same error, same /tmp, same 100% full tmpfs.
I looked in /tmp and most of the files was created with my username.
I deleted those files and gallery-dl started working fine.
After one round of gallery-dl work, the /tmp was 87% full.

I don't know why it's happening, I just know it's a problem.

[mikf]

Sounds like you are using a standalone binary, and PyInstaller is not properly cleaning up its extracted files. I don't know how to fix this, but it is not gallery-dl itself that is cluttering your /tmp directory. Given that it's just /tmp, you could probably just use rm -r /tmp/* to delete it all manually.

Consider installing gallery-dl with pip (in a venv if necessary) or with pipx.