permission denied on .gvfs

[lodlock]

When attempting to use the update system I receive a unable to stat and permission denied on /home/whatever/.gvfs

When looking at it with an ls -l it looks like

????????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs

I can not chown, touch, edit, remove, or do anything as the user of the home dir or as root. Both receive a permission denied.

Any suggestions?

*Edit*
Also, I am running OpenSuSE 11.0. I found similar issues in the beta / rc sections of the forum but I am running the actual release for 11.
*/Edit*

-Lodlock

[schadfield]

lodlock <lodlock@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> When attempting to use the update system I receive a unable to stat and
> permission denied on /home/whatever/.gvfs
>
> When looking at it with an ls -l it looks like
>
> ????????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
>
> I can not chown, touch, edit, remove, or do anything as the user of the
> home dir or as root. Both receive a permission denied.

This is also causing problems with rsync backups of /home.

--
Stephen Chadfield

[LordOllie]

ollie@linux-e1c6:~> stat .gvfs
File: `.gvfs'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 13h/19d Inode: 1 Links: 2
Access: (0500/dr-x------) Uid: ( 1000/ ollie) Gid: ( 100/ users)
Access: 2008-07-04 09:13:20.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2008-07-04 09:13:20.000000000 -0400
Change: 2008-07-04 09:13:20.000000000 -0400

I am also having to same issue, but it seems to carry over if I wish to use the gnome right click option of "Install Software" I receive an error of cannot stat .gvfs

[t_neo]

Bumping this thread due to the following:

* I installed OS11 Gnome fresh on my system
* I did some configuring and want to put back my backed up files
* I can access my network drive
* I can not copy files over it says "permission denied"
* User is owner of directory and has sufficient rights
* Even using su doesn't resolve this
* On console it states "can not access .gvfs. Permission denied".
* I'm not able to delete the .gvfs directory (says it is in use)
* I am able to create new directories in the home folder of the user

I've been looking on the Internet and haven't found solutions and the given tips in IRC didn't work out. Does anybody here have ideas on how to fix this issue, besides doing a total re-install?

[stwissel]

Same problem here. Shiny new installations OpenSuse on a T61 (64Bit) and a Mac Mini (32 Bit). Both throw that error when installing IBM RPMs

[jengelh]

FUSE directories are only accessible by the UID that mounted them (unless other options were using during mount). I find this gvfs stuff highly annoying anyway, why is it suddenly needed in 11.0?

[MaraST78]

There is also one critical bug regarding fuse/gvfs. Makes me pretty nervous, though I don't experience any data corruption (yet?).

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404758

[buckeyered80]

Did anyone ever figure this out? I am having the same issue also. This /home/$USER/.gvfs file is impossible to take ownership of or change permissions on. I actually wanted to take ownership of my home folder to test a program that won't run, and this untouchable .gvfs folder is in the way. Funny...

[Camale�n]

buckeyered80 wrote:

> Did anyone ever figure this out? I am having the same issue also. This
> /home/$USER/.gvfs file is impossible to take ownership of or change
> permissions on. I actually wanted to take ownership of my home folder
> to test a program that won't run, and this untouchable .gvfs folder is
> in the way. Funny...

I think this is a "well-know" bug, reported several times. So, maybe still
not fixed:

***
Bug 467862 - By opening firefox a file ".gvfs" are created in the home
direcotry with no access rights
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467862

Bug 368628 - gvfs: Random crashes
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368628
***

Greetings,

--
Camale�n

[srares]

A solution to remove .gvfs , odd directory:

#umount /home/useraccount/.gvfs
#find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;

After that,

#rm -rf .gvfs

Cheers!