cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied

cccc · 06-18-2014, 10:01 AM

hi

On my Wheezy I have the following permissions for .gvfs in the user home directory:

Code:

root@wheezy:/home/user# ls -la
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
total 9008
drwxr-xr-x 20 user user    4096 Jun 18 16:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    4096 Jan 20 11:33 ..
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jan 22 11:21 .adobe
-rw-------  1 user user     283 Jun 18 16:48 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 user user     220 Jun  5  2013 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 user user    3392 Jun  5  2013 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  7 user user    4096 Jun 16 16:47 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 17 user user    4096 May 26 13:45 .config
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      12 Jan 30 10:30 date.txt
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .dbus
dr-xr-xr-x  3 user user    4096 Jun 18 16:39 Desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 user user      35 Jun 18 16:48 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .fontconfig
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jan 15 15:39 .gconf
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .gftp
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jan 23 18:06 .gnome2
d?????????  ? ?    ?          ?            ? .gvfs
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .local
drwx------  3 user user    4096 Jan 17 10:38 .macromedia
drwx------  4 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .mozilla
-rw-r--r--  1 user user    2533 Jun  5  2013 panel
-rw-r--r--  1 user user     675 Jun  5  2013 .profile
-rw-------  1 user user     256 Jun  5  2013 .pulse-cookie
drwx------  2 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .ssh
drwx------  4 user user    4096 Jun  5  2013 .thumbnails
-rw-------  1 user user     710 May 26 16:06 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user    4096 Jan 15 15:28 .wicd
-rw-------  1 user user      53 Jun 18 16:48 .Xauthority
-rw-------  1 user user    2569 Jun 18 16:49 .xsession-errors
-rw-------  1 user user    4652 Jun 18 16:48 .xsession-errors.old

root@wheezy:/home/user# chown user:user .gvfs
chown: cannot access `.gvfs': Permission denied

Knows anyone howto solve this problem?

TB0ne · 06-18-2014, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cccc

hi
On my Wheezy I have the following permissions for .gvfs in the user home directory:

Code:

root@wheezy:/home/user# ls -la
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
d?????????  ? ?    ?          ?            ? .gvfs

Knows anyone howto solve this problem?

If you put that error into Google, you would find MANY explanations and solutions...did you try that?

The 'error' is because the .gvfs is a fuse-filesystem mount point, and this is a well known and well documented 'bug'. You can 'fix' it by unmounting that mountpoint (IF it's mounted and IF you can...again, this is a BUG), and changing permissions:

Code:

umount /path/to/.gvfs
find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;
rm -rf .gvfs

..or you can ignore it. Your choice.

VHS2DVD · 04-06-2015, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

If you put that error into Google, you would find MANY explanations and solutions...did you try that?

The 'error' is because the .gvfs is a fuse-filesystem mount point, and this is a well known and well documented 'bug'. You can 'fix' it by unmounting that mountpoint (IF it's mounted and IF you can...again, this is a BUG), and changing permissions:

Code:

umount /path/to/.gvfs
find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;
rm -rf .gvfs

..or you can ignore it. Your choice.

I did "put that error into Google" and I did find MANY explanations and solutions including yours. That's why I logged in to answer your point. I did exactly as above. The find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \; returned null. rmdir .gvfs worked.

I do not tolerate mysterious directories on my file system that could be Linux bugs or perhaps an attempted invasion by a hacker. Anyway I am not a conspiracy theorist.

Francewhoa · 03-20-2021, 02:31 PM

Thanks @VHS2DVD

This is to confirm that the resolution in your comment #2 worked at https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1/#post5189960

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Code:

umount /path/to/.gvfs
find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;
rm -rf .gvfs

We face the same challenge here with a Debian 10 Buster. For our challenge we needed to adapt the first command. Below are the three commands that we used.

Command 1

Code:

  umount /path/to/gvfs

Notice in this command 1 above that we removed the dot before "gvfs".

Command 2

Code:

 find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;

This command 2 above removed the corrupted "gvfs" mount. Then somehow "magically" recreated a fresh new "gvfs" folder with the appropriate permissions. Joy

In turn, the errors are gone from the logs.

Command 3

Code:

rm -rf .gvfs

We ran this 3rd command but it was not needed. As the ".gvfs" file was not there before or after any of the three commands above.

TB0ne · 03-20-2021, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Francewhoa

Thanks @VHS2DVD

This is to confirm that the resolution in your comment #2 worked at https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1/#post5189960

Great..except it wasn't VHS2DVD.

Quote:

We face the same challenge here with a Debian 10 Buster. For our challenge we needed to adapt the first command. Below are the three commands that we used.

Command 1

Code:

  umount /path/to/gvfs

Notice in this command 1 above that we removed the dot before "gvfs".

Command 2

Code:

 find . -inum 554009 -exec rm{} \;

This command 2 above removed the corrupted "gvfs" mount. Then somehow "magically" recreated a fresh new "gvfs" folder with the appropriate permissions. Joy

In turn, the errors are gone from the logs.

Command 3

Code:

rm -rf .gvfs

We ran this 3rd command but it was not needed. As the ".gvfs" file was not there before or after any of the three commands above.

So...the same three commands as posted seven years ago? Glad they still worked.