On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:57:51 -0800 Robert Miesen <[email protected]> dijo:
>According to the GNOME Nautilus user manual ( >http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-550.html.en), a >red x by a file means that the user that owns the nautilus process doesn't >have read permissions to the file. > >So having said that, this could indicate either a bug in GNOME Nautilus or >an unclean filesystem. Have you run fsck.ext3 on the affected filesystem (be >sure to specify the force check option...I think it is "-f")? It's not a red X, it's a white X. Also, I told Nautilus to use List View always. (I know how to read; icons are not necessary.) There is a small icon next to the text entry, and that icon is what has the white X on it. I can't find anything in the documentation to explain a white X, but if you right-click on the file, and then on Properties > Emblems, a white X appears to mean unreadable. "Unreadable" suggests you may be right - a file system corruption. Heaven knows, the Jaunty disk has been popped in and out of the Ultrabay a lot in the past couple of weeks. So I unmounted it and ran fsck -f -v on it. (Un)fortunately, there were no errors: [r...@devil8 jjj]# umount /dev/sdb2 [r...@devil8 jjj]# fsck -f -v /dev/sdb2 fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 402595 inodes used (2.42%) 14478 non-contiguous files (3.6%) 636 non-contiguous directories (0.2%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 28966/1937/3 21751411 blocks used (65.51%) 0 bad blocks 5 large files 325119 regular files 41578 directories 132 character device files 26 block device files 27 fifos 502 links 35689 symbolic links (32311 fast symbolic links) 15 sockets -------- 403088 files [r...@devil8 jjj]# A corrupted filesystem would certainly explain the random invisible files. I wonder if there is something stronger than fsck -f. But having said that, Thunar had no problem with the "invisible" files. I wonder if I can install a different terminal. I'd go off to see if I can find a Gnome/Nautilus bugtracker, except that I get the same strange results from the command line (gnome-terminal). The more I investigate this the more haywire it seems. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
