On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:10 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > Anyone know whats up with the permissions on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs ? > On upgrade of certain packages, I'm seeing the error.. > cannot access /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs: Permission denied > > ls -l of that shows.. > > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs/ > > My initial thought was 'eek, filesystem corruption'. > Rebooting and running fsck picks up nothing. > And in fact, when in runlevel 1, the permissions look sane. > > It seems when gdm starts up, it all goes to hell. > > Anyone else seeing the same thing ? It's part of - surprise! GVFS. It's a FUSE mountpoint. Expected behavior. I'll quote myself from a mail on -test-list[1] about the same thing: When a user logs in, ~/.gvfs gets mounted for them. It's how GNOME exports stuff mounted by gvfs to non-gvfs stuff, and it's restricted to the user who created it. When GDM is running, the system considers the gdm user to be logged in. Guess where GDM's homedir is? yep: /var/lib/gdm. I'll bet you saw the "Permission denied: /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs" message when you tried to install/remove an RPM. RPM tries to statvfs() all the mounted filesystems - including the FUSE ones. That message should probably be suppressed, but it's not harmful and that file should not be removed. -w [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-March/msg00379.html
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