On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:15 +0000, Johann B. Gudmundsson wrote: > Anyone else seeing weird permissions on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs > > Had an error access error on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs > > ls -alh reveals ... > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs > > [root@localhost gdm]# chmod 0700 .gvfs > chmod: cannot access `.gvfs': Permission denied > > [root@localhost gdm]# rm -rf .gvfs > rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Permission denied > > [root@localhost gdm]# stat .gvfs > stat: cannot stat `.gvfs': Permission denied > > [root@localhost gdm]# ls -il .gvfs > ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied > > Anyone with master degree on how to remove this file... Don't. Beyond the obvious "why the hell would you go around deleting files willy-nilly unless you *want* to break your system" speech, here's the deal - .gvfs is a FUSE filesystem mount point. 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
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