I can’t open my home directory with nautilus (or any other program for that matter). I can open folders above and below, such as /home/ and /home/me/Desktop, but whenever I try to open /home/me/, nautilus puts up the loading icon and never manages to open the folder.
I do not know if this is related, but after some experimentation, I noticed I could still access any file within the home directory, except for .gvfs . If I try to open it, or use another program to check or change its read/write permissions, they freeze.
Does anybody know what is going on and how to fix this problem?
Can you open a terminal as root & do cd /home and then ls -l
You should get something like this
dylan:/ # cd /home
dylan:/home # ls -l
total xx
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Oct 22 00:49 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 74 sadiq users 4096 Nov 15 20:43 sadiq
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Nov 8 10:45 video
drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Nov 10 10:43 video250
Look at the permissions & user/group entries. My home directory is /home/sadiq
Maybe it is related to the .gvfs directory. Why don’t you (as su)
Unmount the gvfs virtual file system umount /home/me/.gvfs
Remove the .gvfs directory rmdir /home/me/.gvfs
See if you can browse to your home directory now. If you can, try updating gvfs and Nautilus from the Gnome stable repo. Log off and log back on to recreate .gvfs.
> Unmount the gvfs fuse daemon
> -umount /home/me/.gvfs-
>
> Remove the .gvfs directory
> -rmdir /home/me/.gvfs-
do you know for sure that those are safe operations to perform?
i ask, because i don’t know if they are safe because i have no feeling
for his “network neighborhood”…and, i haven’t seen you ask if he
has samba clients, or a networked printer…etc…
and, i have no idea how to regenerate .gvfs, do you?
[QUOTE=palladium;2068167]> Unmount the gvfs fuse daemon
> -umount /home/me/.gvfs-
>
> Remove the .gvfs directory
> -rmdir /home/me/.gvfs-
do you know for sure that those are safe operations to perform?
i ask, because i don’t know if they are safe because i have no feeling for his “network neighborhood”…and, i haven’t seen you ask if he has samba clients, or a networked printer…etc…
and, i have no idea how to regenerate .gvfs, do you?/QUOTE]
He’ll just need to log off and log back on to do that.
I couldn’t remove it, even using the root account directly. I’ve tried reinstalling vfs, but have noticed no effect from that. Short of reinstalling the operating system, is there anything else I can do?
I just created a new account on my computer, and it would seem that the issue, whatever it is is system wide. I could not access the home folders on my normal account, new account, or root account.
None of my programs can browse to the home folders and my IDE freezes the moment I try to browse any folder.
Ok, I had to uninstall GVFS and the large number of programs reliant on it, but I was able to delete the .gvfs dir and I can access the home dir again. Now I just need to figure out everything that was uninstalled.
iluvis wrote:
> Now I just need to figure out everything that was uninstalled.
palladium wrote:
> or not! that is, it is working right now, correct?
> so, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Reply: Well, the software installer would not let me choose the option that would leave the dependecies in place.
Anyways, I just had the problem again. I was trying to get to the trash folder and figured out that I couldn’t do so the normal way because of one of the gvfs extensions that had been uninstalled.
So I reinstalled two of the extensions, gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse. I gained access to the trash, but one restart later revealed that I could not access the home folder once again.
I uninstalled gvfs-fuse once again, and when that didn’t help, gvfs-backends. I can access my home folder again. But that still leaves the question: One of them didn’t cause me problems in the past and still doesn’t for most others, but do know. Why?