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:

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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.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:41:30PM +0000, mick wrote:

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:34:12 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:

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sudo?

No, a bit of Googling told me what was going on, .

Then, with respect, why didn't you do that /before/ asking the list?

I had already done quite a lot of googling for the problem, having read through several threads on various forums that didn't answer my question I thought I'd ask here. However I also kept on looking.

Anyway, surely it's OK to ask questions here whether or not you've looked elsewhere. The alug list is one of many places I will look and ask if I have a problem. It's hardly a heavy traffic list so a bit of activity helps to keep it alive.