-I am able to delete files and also to empty the Trash, but I can not open the Trash.
I called our IT Helpdesk, and some guy logged in remotely and tried several things, but to no avail (so far?). Hope I’ll hear more from them this week.
Is there anyone here that is smarter than the IT Helpdesk guy from work?
(I am aware that this is the OpenSUSE forum, but as I wrote above, for days now I get this server error when I try to open the SLED forum.)
> (-Since I get a server error, when I try to “open” the SLED forum, I
> try it here…-)
Which one? I just tried several and they all worked. Maybe try clearing
your cookies, or test in another browser, or at least tell exactly which
subforum under SLED is broken over on http://forums.suse.com/
> At work, I and my colleagues work with SLED 10 (and KDE 3.5).
>
> Since last week Monday, I can no longer open my Trash. When I
> double-click on the Trash shortcut, I get a pop-up that goes like:
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> "Error - KIOExec
>
> ( X ) Incorrectly formed URL-address trash:/
>
> [OK]
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> -The shortcut leads to:
>
> trash:/
>
> -When I open the shortcut-icon itself in Kate, it says:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Comment=Contains removed files
> Comment[nl]=Bevat de verwijderde bestanden
> EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Icon=Trashcan_full
> Name=trash
> Name[nl]=trash
> OnlyShowIn=KDE
> Type=Link
> URL:trash:/
>
>
> -I am able to delete files and also to empty the Trash, but I can not
> open the Trash.
What has changed recently? If you create a new user and login with that
user does the same thing happen? New user create and password set:
> I called our IT Helpdesk, and some guy logged in remotely and tried
> several things, but to no avail (so far?). Hope I’ll hear more from them
> this week.
> Is there anyone here that is smarter than the IT Helpdesk guy from
> work?
Worst case you could try to delete the .Trash directory directly via the
command line. This typically lets KDE recreate it. I do not know for
sure where it is in KDE 3.5, but on my openSUSE 12.2 system it’s at
~/.local/share/Trash/ so recursively deleting that should do the trick.
Logout/Login after you do that just in case. I would, for the record,
test with a new user first.
At work, in SLED with Firefox (version 1 or so - updating, what’s that?) and here at home in Firefox 12, https://forums.suse.com/forum.php gives me:
Fatal error:
The email address you entered is already in use. If you have forgotten your password, please click here.
Unable to proceed with save while $errors array is not empty in class vB_DataManager_User in [path]/includes/class_dm.php on line 849
In IE 8, it gives me a “HTTP-500” error (together with a couple of bla bla lines). For what it’s worth, I sent the site admin a message
I do am able to login to Novell account (as I can here).
AFAIK, nothing changed… It “just” happened last week, Monday (nothing “just” happens - I know, but I did nothing wrong).
The IT helpdesk guy made SLED reconfigure my account: all my personal settings were gone, but the Trash error was still there.
I don’t know THE Administrator account password of the PC’s at work. So, “sudo” is probably a no-go.
I do know an “Installer” account password at all the PC’s, but that doesn’t let me start YAST, for example. This “Installer” account does let me create new users. I haven’t thought of/tried that; will try that tomorrow.
I am, kind of, the local SysAdmin - which only means I’m the one who calls our IT Helpdesk… /rolleyes/
Thank you very much, ab. I write this at home (in Windows), so I will have to wait until tomorrow to see what gives…
-oo-
On a side note, long long ago I started with SUSE 6 or 7 or 8 or so (not very successfully, I remember it took me 3 days to get my Soundblaster to work; ISDN I never got to work. That’s years ago). I have had Ubuntu for nearly 5 years (before Canonical came up with that Unity rubbish; Gnome 3 isn’t much better, imo. Fedora 17, yikes!) and also Xubuntu; Gnome 2, Fluxbox, LXDE. Since Unity is coughcrapcough, I am now running Linux Mint in dualboot with WinVista at my main home PC. For some reason, I never got along well with OpenSUSE…
It would be nice, if I could somehow solve that Trash problem, while a professional IT guy may not be able to lol!
I know my way around in Linux, but Ubuntu/Xubuntu and Mint are so good that I never had to dive under the hood. In other words, after 5+ years of Linux, I am still not much more than just a n00b. I have this problem with the trash, and I have (had) no idea where to start solving it.
But I guess that is why there are search engines and user forums.
I am now here with my main PC with Mint 14 (“Mate”) and Firefox 19.0.2, and https://forums.suse.com/forum.php gives me the same error that I mentioned above. Same with Opera 12.15 in Mint, by the way.
Three different computers, three different OS’s, five different browsers, and all show the same server problem. I would say the problem is not at my side.
> I am now here with my main PC with Mint 14 (“Mate”) and Firefox 19.0.2,
> and https://forums.suse.com/forum.php gives me the same error that I
> mentioned above. Same with Opera 12.15 in Mint, by the way.
> Three different computers, three different OS’s, five different
> browsers, and all show the same server problem. I would say the problem
> is not at my side.
It’s a problem with your account.
> Ab, why are you able to open the SLED forums?
Because my account does not have a problem. I’ve reported it; should be
fixed before too long.
If not fixed already, use the Forum Feedback link and post the same thing
you sent to me in there. You may need to use another browser or logout so
that things work well enough for you to at least get to the correct forum.
From there it should be fixed relatively quickly.
Reporting back in from my PC at work (running Firefox 3.5.9…).
I can open the trash without any problems in Konqueror (I had not thought of doing that either, last week.).
doing kbuildsycoca --noincremental gives me this:
dek@tckh197-has:~> kbuildsycoca --noincremental
kbuildsycoca running...
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
I have no idea what this means.
~/.xsession-errors is supposed to be a (hidden) folder in my home directory?
There is no such folder in my home directory.
-oo-
I will try the new-user thing today at noon and see what happens…
-oo-
ab, I will do as you told, regarding my account “issue”.
ab and wolfi323,
Thank you both already for your time to answer at my Trash problem.
Why do I (in Konqueror) see different deleted files in trash:/ and /LocalData/dek/.Trash? Should these not be the same? In both are files that I have deleted.
Test files that I delete (from my desktop) end up in trash:/ and not in /LocalData/dek/.Trash. I can see them in trash:/ in Konqueror.
When I click at the desktop trash icon in Nautilus, then I see the files that (in Konqueror) I see in /LocalData/dek/.Trash
When I click at the desktop trash icon in Konqueror, then I get that aforementioned error.
Where does trash:/ lead to, in Konqueror? Which folder is trash:/ ?
(And, whoops, now I see two hidden trash folders in my home directory: .Trash and .trash)
The more I think about this, the more confused I get.
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”[/FONT]
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/Network.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop has Type=Link instead of “Application” or “Service”
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/myComputer.desktop
I have no idea what this means.
Those are just warnings that some files don’t correspond to the latest specifications correctly. You can ignore those.
~/.xsession-errors is supposed to be a (hidden) folder in my home directory?
There is no such folder in my home directory.
No, it is a text file containing error messages and so on. ~/.xsession-errors means: the file is called “.xsession-errors” and is located in your home directory. You may have to enable “Show hidden files” in Konqueror’s “View” menu for the file to show up.
Another thing to try would be to create a new trash icon on your desktop (you could delete the old one first):
Just right-click on the desktop, choose “Create New…”->“Link to URL”. Enter anything you like as filename (“Trashcan” f.e.) and “trash:/” as address (URL). This one should work then.
Oh, wait. I had another look at your first post and think I have found your problem:
That last line is incorrect. It should be “URL$e]=trash:/”. (“URL=trash:/” should work as well though)
Open the icon in kate and change that.
This should fix your problem.
KDE normally uses .local/share/Trash as has been mentioned already.
AFAIR older GNOME versions (i.e. GNOME2 as you have) used .Trash .
And if you put a file from a different partition/drive to the trash (f.e. on /LocalData in your case), a trash folder on that partition/drive will be used, so the files don’t have to be copied across partitions (which could take quite long for large files).
Well, my Trash problem has been “solved”… A guy of the IT Helpdesk called earlier this morning. He still didn’t get the problem solved, so he simply created a whole new account at my PC.
Oww, a file. Yes, there is indeed such a file (full with some lines), but as I am now a new user, there is probably nothing about the Trash in it.
This I had done last week, but that error message still kept appearing.
Oops, that is (probably) a typo that I made, when I wrote that text at home, late last night. I don’t believe (I am quite certain) that was the cause of the trash issue. I guess I will never know what happened.
wolfi323 and ab,
I thank you both for your time and your answers. I appreciate it very much.
