In my opinion, this doesn't reall give enough information to confirm
that the behaviour isn't down to user error. For example, on the second
machine the cut-and-pasted output of
for u in A B C; do ls -ld /home/$u{,/.gvfs}; df /home/$u/.gvfs; id
$u; done
would be useful.
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Superuser
It may have originally been confirmed and triaged but surely it's normal
to respond to a `It looks like it's recently been fixed, please check'
request. To not do so might mislead people into thinking it has indeed
been fixed. That is not spamming.
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Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder
This is an up to date 8.04 i386.
$ sudo strace -e trace=lstat64 stat /home/ralph/.gvfs
lstat64(/home/ralph/.gvfs, 0xbfe8be54) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
stat: cannot stat `/home/ralph/.gvfs': Permission denied
Process 30706 detached
$
I think the problem still exists.
what about --exclude=~/.gvfs ?
I don't think most shells will expand the tilde when it's not at the
start of a word like that.
$ echo --exclude=~/foo
--exclude=~/foo
$
The problem here isn't that the issue can't be worked around, typically
adding an --exclude or several as Chris
what about --exclude=~/.gvfs ?
2008/6/5 Chris Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am by no means an expert in development, but I've been getting around
this by adding --exclude /home/.../.gvfs. It's worked, although it's a
pain to backup more than one home account at a time. I'm not sure if
this is