[SOLVED] ls -l shows question marks for directory /var/run/user/1000/gvfs

ls -l shows question marks for directory /var/run/user/1000/gvfs. I am running Slackware -current, which I updated using slackpkg this evening. I cannot view the contents of the directory.

Some background:
I installed -current using Alien Bob's Slackware Live USB about a week ago.
I found this directory by chance, just poking around. It did not cause me a problem.

My questions are: a) Why are the question marks there and are they going to cause me a problem? b) would a chown command get rid of them and allow me access to the directory?

root@darkstar:/var/run/user/1000# pwd
/var/run/user/1000
root@darkstar:/var/run/user/1000# ls -l
/bin/ls: cannot access 'gvfs': Permission denied
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 mik users  81 Jul 17 19:05 KSMserver__0
drwx------ 3 mik users  60 Jul 17 19:05 dbus-1/
drwx------ 2 mik users  60 Jul 17 19:05 dconf/
d????????? ? ?   ?       ?            ? gvfs/
drwx------ 2 mik users  40 Jul 17 19:06 gvfsd/
srw------- 1 mik users   0 Jul 17 19:05 kdeinit5__0=
srwxr-xr-x 1 mik users   0 Jul 17 19:05 klauncherWxkuiW.1.slave-socket=
srwxr-xr-x 1 mik users   0 Jul 17 19:05 kwallet5.socket=
drwx------ 2 mik users  80 Jul 17 19:05 pulse/
drwx------ 4 mik users 100 Jul 17 20:21 speech-dispatcher/

You are not mik but root. Try again as mik.

You are correct. Yes, as mik I can access the directory. ls -l as mik gives:

dr-x------ 2 mik users   0 Jul 17 19:06 gvfs

But why are the directory attributes question marks for this particular directory as root? In other words why this one and not the others listed in the OP?

Also why does ls -l as root not list the attributes as dr-x------ 2 mik users ... etc. ?

It's a fuse file system mounted on /var/run/user/1000/gvfs. 'man fuse' and look for e.g. allow_other.

Thank you Petri Kaukasoina.

I have read a little about fuse file systems now and found this:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man...t.fuse3.8.html

and this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/18...se-file-system

Interesting, thank you again.