I'll give it a try, thanks Pierre. John
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Pierre Yann Baco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
