gvfs: Permission denied

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I’ve received this error on my opensuse12.2 box:
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/385676-opensuse-11-rc1-gvfs-permission-denied.html
I’ve tried reinstalling the programs, but it dod not help.

The error ‘cannot access /run/user/mbj/gvfs: Permission denied’ shows
up in lots of monitor programs, so I want to reset the permissions so this works.

mortenb-ws2:/opt/apache/conf # ls -l /run/user/mbj/
ls: cannot access /run/user/mbj/gvfs: Permission denied
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan  2 10:29 X11-display -> /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
d????????? ? ?    ?     ?            ? gvfs


# rpm -qi gvfs
Name        : gvfs
Version     : 1.12.3
Release     : 3.2.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon Dec 10 13:00:33 2012
Group       : Development/Libraries/C and C++
Size        : 688817
License     : LGPL-2.0+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Sun Aug 12 16:44:56 2012, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM  : gvfs-1.12.3-3.2.2.src.rpm
Build Date  : Sun Aug 12 16:43:58 2012
Build Host  : build08
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor      : openSUSE
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : VFS functionality for GLib
Description :
VFS functionality for GLib.
Distribution: openSUSE 12.2

Thanks

MortenB, Oslo, Norway

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Could you show output of “grep gvfs /proc/mounts”?

3

I’m pretty sure that is not any kind of a problem. I’m not currently seeing that, logged in with KDE, but it would possibly show up if I used gnome.

Check The Wikipedia page for gvfs

In short, it has to do with a gnome virtual file system, accessible only to the user logged into gnome, and not even accessible to root (because the virtualizing software doesn’t allow root).

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It belongs to Gnome and although you might be a KDE users, it will be created on the usage of a Gnome application.

I have since a few years. My backup allways protests and I allways ignore. You have to live with it.

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Thanks all

mbj@mortenb-ws2:~> grep gvfs /proc/mounts
gvfs-fuse-daemon /run/user/mbj/gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100 0 0

I mainly use kde but have some gnome apps I use frequently, my only problem is the permission denied it outputs from time to time.
I’m now ignoring /run/user from our monitor and scanning scripts and the problem is gone.

Thanks again

MortenB