Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
I had a weird thing happening that I cannot explain, I just can describe what I see. I am willing to investigate further if you can ask for more specific info. My computer was running Edgy as of this morning, but was upgraded to Feisty just now; the issue still persists as described below: During a vacation my computer was on, but just sat there for a few days. To my knowledge nobody touched it (and nobody was in the apartment I hope). Nothing special was running, just Gnome, NetworkManager, Evolution, Gaim, Firefox, and gtk-gnutella. Upon return I saw that my user's Trash icon was showing "full" and wanted to empty it. However, nothing happened; it stayed full. Figuring that there was a permission problem (known issue with being unable to delete root-owned files from user's Trash), I looked into the Trash and found that it included a complete set of the files and directories that live in /var/run. I have no clue why those files suddenly show up in the Trash. See the attached screenshot example. If I try to delete the files by rightclicking them inside the Trash, I get, e.g., "Error while deleting. "/var/run/acpid.socket" cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent folder." Given the situation, this is expected behavior since a user cannot delete from /var/run. If I carefully delete the files from /var/run, they disappear from the user's Trash too. If I "sudo touch /var/run/testfile", the file immediately shows up in the user's Trash. I have only 2 users on this machine, and therefore I have only 2 .Trash direcories: sudo find / -name ".Trash" /home/user1/.Trash /home/user2/.Trash But they don't contain the files: sudo ls -la /home/{user1,user2}/.Trash /home/user2/.Trash: total 8 drwx------ 2 user2 user1 4096 2006-11-04 18:26 . drwxr-xr-x 16 user2 user1 4096 2006-12-20 19:37 .. /home/user1/.Trash: total 12 drwx------ 2 user1 user1 8192 2007-03-05 20:48 . drwxr-xr-x 53 user1 user1 4096 2007-03-05 20:34 .. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- User's trash suddenly includes a copy of /var/run https://launchpad.net/bugs/89950 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs