root can't delete a users .gvfs

[john]

I'll give it a try, thanks Pierre.

John

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Pierre Yann Baco <pbaco at carlit.net> wrote:
> john a écrit :
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have noticed a couple of times a users desktop "locking up" or
>> becoming unusable in some way. This problem seems to be related to the
>> .gvfs ownership getting goofed up. Instead of the file being owned by
>> the user in question ls -la will show something like:
>>
>> d------   2 ? ?     4096 2008-04-25 07:37 .gvfs
>>
>> The file cannot be removed by the user nor can it be removed by root
>> using rm -rf .gvfs/
>>
>> The only cure I've found so far is to reboot the entire server. Whats
>> going on and is there a better way to clear this file if it gets
>> corrupted (I suppose I should wonder why it's getting goofed up as
>> well).
>>
>> As it stands I am afraid to deploy Hardy because I don't have a good
>> way to resolve this issue. Any help would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
> ~/.gvfs is used as a mount point for the Gnome gvfs of a given user.  It
> stays mounted even when user is logged off.
> You need to umount  it prior to delete it.
>
> Try "umount -fl /home/XXXXX/.gvfs" . That should do the trick.
>
> Pierre
>
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