Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:42:05AM BST, Marc Shapiro wrote: As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a previous install. That sounds simply like a permissions issue. To rule it our mound the filesystem rw and change the permissions on files and directories to 666 and 777 respectively (start with the full patch as the GUI file manager might need to have access to read those all the way from / up. Cheers, -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513100948.ga22...@linuxstuff.pl
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sat, 12 May 2012 23:43:43 +, Marc Shapiro wrote: (...) Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. Run mount and put here the output. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? By defaul, Nautilus does not show hidden directories (.my_dir) nor files (.my_file), but I suppose this is not the problem here, right? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Who knows... GUIs are very useful but they can also be a headache to debug serious problems because they pretend to be more clever that the user, which usually works but not for all situations. Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. What I would do is: 1/ Copy the whole disk content data into another device/volume/hard disk 2/ Check the copied data is okay and all the files opens fine from different systems 3/ Then run the disk manufacturer's verification utilities to ensure the hard disk is still in good shape and thus, usuable 4/ Format the disk and create the required partitions 5/ Copy back the data 6/ Have a cup of coffee/tea while remember yourself for the needing of doing regular backups :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/joo307$dun$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:42:05AM BST, Marc Shapiro wrote: As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a previous install. That sounds simply like a permissions issue. To rule it our mound the filesystem rw and change the permissions on files and directories to 666 and 777 respectively (start with the full patch as the GUI file manager might need to have access to read those all the way from / up. Almost certainly a permissiopns issue, espcially as he mentioned it was a fresh install mounting an old /home. I'd be wary of chmodding everything 666 and 777 personally, as certain things might need other perms. Besides, 644 and 755 are more secure. @Mark: open a terminal, become root, type 'ls -la'. Should reveal the problem if it's a permissions issue. Perhaps your UID is different in the new system from the previous one, in which case a simple 'chown -R' should fix it. -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513110416.GA11969@radhesyama
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:04:16PM BST, Indulekha wrote: Almost certainly a permissiopns issue, espcially as he mentioned it was a fresh install mounting an old /home. I'd be wary of chmodding everything 666 and 777 personally, as certain things might need other perms. Besides, 644 and 755 are more secure. I never suggested chmod everything from / up, only the files' and directories' affected full path STARTING from / which in this example is /home mounted somewhere in /target, /media, /mnt, etc. And yes, 644 and 755 are enough to view the files but if the file manager is running as a different user he might not be able to change anything using GUI, that might be the reason why he can see the files on in the terminal and not in the GUI file manger in the first place - I don't know how this particular Live CD work. Then chmod go-rwx or g-w and o-rwx will be enough to get /home back to desired permissions. Cheers, -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513120925.ga24...@linuxstuff.pl
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:09:26PM +0100, rjc wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:04:16PM BST, Indulekha wrote: Almost certainly a permissiopns issue, espcially as he mentioned it was a fresh install mounting an old /home. I'd be wary of chmodding everything 666 and 777 personally, as certain things might need other perms. Besides, 644 and 755 are more secure. I never suggested chmod everything from / up I never even thought that you did, much less said such a thing. Sorry if I was unclear. There are files in my home directory which do not need to be 666, and directories in the same location which do not need to be 777. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513121947.GA14085@radhesyama
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On 5/13/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 23:43:43 +, Marc Shapiro wrote: (...) Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. Run mount and put here the output. $ mount aufs on / type aufs (rw) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sr0 on /live/image type iso9660 (ro,noatime) tmpfs on /live/cow type tmpfs (rw,noatime,mode=755) tmpfs on /live type tmpfs (rw,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /dev/mapper/vg1-home on /mnt type ext3 (rw) So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? By defaul, Nautilus does not show hidden directories (.my_dir) nor files (.my_file), but I suppose this is not the problem here, right? No. I wouldn't expect hidden files and directories to show. I don't see a permissions problem, either. Here is a listing of the directory showing only the non-hiddden sub-directories. I have also left in any error lines that were generated. (Remember that this was an LVM volume that was in a VG spread over three partitions, two of which were on a dying disk and I did a pvmove to migrate all of the data to the new drive. I believe that fsck does show errors on this filesystem. Could that cause the GUI to not find files and directories that the CLI can find?) I have marked the directories that DO show up in Nautilus with an asterisk: $ ls -all ls: cannot access html: Input/output error ls: cannot access .pdf: Input/output error ls: cannot access The Lone Ranger Theme - William Tell Overture.mp3: Input/output error total 9528 drwxr-xr-x 112 user user8192 May 7 05:28 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root4096 Dec 4 19:06 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 user user4096 Oct 7 2010 accordion-menus_files drwxr-xr-x 10 user user4096 Jun 11 2009 bf drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 May 3 04:13 bin drwxr-xr-x 8 user user4096 Dec 2 2009 blackfin drwxr-xr-x 3 user user4096 Dec 20 2008 citrix.ICAClient * drwxr-xr-x 3 user user4096 May 30 2011 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 Jun 13 2011 dwhelper * drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 Aug 16 2007 gotmail* d? ? ?? ?? html drwxr-xr-x 8 user user4096 Sep 26 2011 images drwx-- 2 user user4096 Sep 25 2011 mail * drwxr-xr-x 3 user user4096 Jan 27 2010 mc drwxr-xr-x 4 user user4096 May 7 2011 music drwxr-xr-x 17 user user8192 May 12 16:35 MyDocs drwxr-xr-x 5 user user4096 Feb 8 2010 nls drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 Dec 5 2006 omer -? ? ?? ?? .pdf drwxr-xr-x 9 user user4096 Jun 21 2010 Projects * drwxr-xr-x 3 user user4096 May 22 2011 public_html -? ? ?? ?? The Lone Ranger Theme - William Tell Overture.mp3 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 May 7 2011 tmp * drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 Dec 16 06:22 VirtualBoxDisks drwxr-xr-x 2 user user4096 Dec 16 06:49 VirtualBox VMs lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 8 Oct 8 2006 .Xsession - .xinitrc I count 14 directories that DO NOT show up in Nautilus and 6 that DO. I have not yet checked if there are any FILES that are not showing up, but I am hoping that whatever gets the directories to show would work on files, as well. 1/ Copy the whole disk content data into another device/volume/hard disk 2/ Check the copied data is okay and all the files opens fine from different systems 3/ Then run the disk manufacturer's verification utilities to ensure the hard disk is still in good shape and thus, usuable 4/ Format the disk and create the required partitions 5/ Copy back the data 6/ Have a cup of coffee/tea while remember yourself for the needing of doing regular backups :-) I will start copying and testing as soon as I actually get enough free time. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On 05/13/2012 12:43 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: d? ? ?? ?? html That kind of line is a pretty good sign that your filesystem has errors. I don't know why it would prevent other directories from appearing in a GUI, but I wouldn't bother right now. Umount the filesystem, make a copy of it if you have space (or copy what you can, but mount it readonly), and fsck it. -- There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. -- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fafd8ea.7050...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:43:50 +, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/13/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Run mount and put here the output. $ mount aufs on / type aufs (rw) (...) Are you still running from a LiveCD media? If yes, why? :-? /dev/mapper/vg1-home on /mnt type ext3 (rw) That has to be the damaged volume. Was it added automatically by the system or is that you manually mounted? By defaul, Nautilus does not show hidden directories (.my_dir) nor files (.my_file), but I suppose this is not the problem here, right? No. I wouldn't expect hidden files and directories to show. I don't see a permissions problem, either. Yes, I also think so, I mean, that permissions have no direct relation with the problem. Here is a listing of the directory showing only the non-hiddden sub -directories. I have also left in any error lines that were generated. (Remember that this was an LVM volume that was in a VG spread over three partitions, two of which were on a dying disk and I did a pvmove to migrate all of the data to the new drive. I believe that fsck does show errors on this filesystem. Could that cause the GUI to not find files and directories that the CLI can find?) (...) Yes, that can be the cause. A corrupted or severe damaged filesystem can fool nautilus and prevent from files and folders to be displayed (and even more if it was a part of spread LVM volume). Look, even ls is having problems (I/O errors) to show them. You can, however, try with another file browser, just to compare with the Nautilus output, but I think that would be irrelevant for the main problem. I count 14 directories that DO NOT show up in Nautilus and 6 that DO. I have not yet checked if there are any FILES that are not showing up, but I am hoping that whatever gets the directories to show would work on files, as well. (...) I wouldn't bother about that now (given the status and history of the data) and start from scratch should the hard disk present no hardware problems. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/joomvd$dun$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working reasonably. So I powered down. The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. ?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ?? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120512235842.GA1413@radhesyama
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On 5/12/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working reasonably. So I powered down. The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. ?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ?? Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANbRw9k-dTrX48J7dokfBZd6nYDj2ckHPSh2xmbyQvs=6zb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:04AM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/12/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working reasonably. So I powered down. The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. ?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ?? Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls. Something to do with gnome or nautilus then, I'd think... Sorry I'm not more helpful, I don't use those. You could try creating a new user account and see if it happens there too -- then if it doesn't you know there's probably an error of some sort in a config file. If this was caused by an update, apt-get -f install might work... -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513002959.GA1862@radhesyama
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On 5/13/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:04AM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/12/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought that I was going to need to get filesystem recovery software to retrieve at least some of my data. Meanwhile, I obtained a spare 80 GB HD and a live DVD ROM which contained Debian Squeeze. I could boot to the live system and I did an install onto the 80 GB drive. I rebooted into the new system and it seemed OK. I installed R-Linux to try and recover my files, but it did not see my old drive (from which I had done the pvmove). It was getting late and I did not want to leave the system up untill I knew that everything was working reasonably. So I powered down. The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name that I was trying to open and my login on the old system. If I select Open Read-Only the file opens right up. Other files open without the warning. I probably had that particular file open when the system went wonky (it is almost always open) and that is the reason for the warning dialog. So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. ?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ?? Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls. Something to do with gnome or nautilus then, I'd think... Sorry I'm not more helpful, I don't use those. You could try creating a new user account and see if it happens there too -- then if it doesn't you know there's probably an error of some sort in a config file. If this was caused by an update, apt-get -f install might work... As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a previous install. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANbRw9k5+i7-zf0O=PgYZXQKDP9Y6udpT=B0hQ=eu5oiapv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI
On 13/05/12 01:42, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/13/12, Indulekhaindule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:04AM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/12/12, Indulekhaindule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. (...) The next day I was unable to boot into the new system without being dropped into a maintenance shell. Aaaargh! So I booted into the live system, again. I looked for my missing files and directories again. Why would I expect to see them? I don't know. Desperation, perhaps. The file browser did not show them. Then I tried something different. I opened a terminal, did a 'cd' to my old home directory which I had mounted at /mnt and did an 'ls'. Lo! And Behold! The missing directories were there. I did a 'cd' into my main documents directory, followed by 'ls' and my files were all there. They show up from the command line, but not from the GUI! Now I really started to wonder. I opened OpenOfficeCalc aqnd tried to browse to the directory and file that I had just seen. Nothing. The directory did not show up. Then I clicked on the icon to 'Type a File Name' and entered the name of the missing directory, followed my a slash. All the files showed up! I selected one of the large .ods files that I use a lot. A message came up, saying: Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. (...) So my question is: Why do some of my files and directories show in GUI apps, but not all of them, while all of them seem to show up just fine from the command line? Does anyone have any ideas on this? If all of my files are actually on the disk, in good order, why can I only see them from the command line? Is there something that I can do to make all of the files and directories visible in GUI apps, as well? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. ?? Gnome/KDE/xfce4/wmii/ratpoison... Nautilus/Dolphin/Thunar/pcmanfm... ?? Sorry, default Debian installation, so Gnome and Nautilus. Also Open Office and Gnome Terminal. Everything also shows up fine from the command line if I switch to vt 1 cd to the directory and then ls. Something to do with gnome or nautilus then, I'd think... Sorry I'm not more helpful, I don't use those. You could try creating a new user account and see if it happens there too -- then if it doesn't you know there's probably an error of some sort in a config file. If this was caused by an update, apt-get -f install might work... As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a previous install. My first thoughts, before doing *anything* else, would be BACK UP THOSE FILES! Then start investigating. I'd next do a fsck -n to see if any file system damage shows, but not trying to repeair it until I see what there is. It's odd that the files/directories don't show in gnome/nautilus. Perhaps a permissions/attributes thing? I'm guessing Open Office creates a lock/work file while working on a document and it has found one of those. -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4faf476c.4040...@rpdom.net
