Did you check the permissions of the ~/Desktop folder? That might help explain some eccentric behavior.
BTW, in the offending terminal program, what output do the `alias' and `wheris ls' commands give? It's a long shot, but your ls command might be getting aliased in such a way that it doesn't perform correctly under normal usage circumstances. On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:15 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:53:49 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >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. > > OK, I installed a different terminal. And it sees all three of the example > files I posted earlier, using the ls command or any other command. As root > it > also allows me to copy them to wherever I want. > > It shows the permissions for the two offending files as -rw------- and for > the > one that Nautilus lets me copy as -rw-r--r--. The Nautilus Properties > dialog > box shows no differences for the permissions, but it is a GUI that does not > display all possible information. If gnome-terminal would display the > offending > files it probably would have shown the differing permissions as well. > > I am not sure if gnome-terminal's failing to display the files is by design > or on accident. Either way, it is wrong. If the file is there it should > list it. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Luck is believing you are lucky. -- Tennessee Williams _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
