On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:57:35PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 14 March 2012 20:47, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I think this may well be connected with my recent question about automounting.
How do I get rid of this broken .gvfs directory:-
-rw------- 1 chris chris 0 2012-01-03 10:28 .gtk-bookmarks -rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 82 2011-12-29 11:18 .gtkrc-2.0 d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs drwxr----- 2 chris chris 4096 2012-03-11 17:04 .hplip drwxrwxr-x 3 chris chris 4096 2012-02-15 20:20 .icedtea
I can't even ls it directly:-
chris$ ls -d .gvfs ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
sudo?
No, a bit of Googling told me what was going on, .gvfs is a mount point and you need to unmount the file system that's mounted there before being able to remove it. Once that's done you can recreate .gvfs and reboot and everything is OK. There is a bug somewhere that causes .gvfs to become unreadable as above.