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Bug 657055 - Trash folder doesn't work for root user
Trash folder doesn't work for root user
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: trash backend
1.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-22 04:41 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2014-06-07 11:50 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2011-08-22 04:41:53 UTC 
Originally reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/494082

Launching Nautilus as root and then clicking on the Trash icon results in this error:

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The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported
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Comment 1 Rodrigo Silva 2011-11-30 09:54:48 UTC 
Confirmed for Nautilus 2.32.0 (using Linux Mint 10 and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick), didn't test for 3.x
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-12-02 22:56:48 UTC 
-> gvfs

Not a Nautilus bug, but a GVfs trash backend one.

Actually, I'm not even sure this is a bug at all, since running Nautilus as root inside an user session is not really supported; I think what's happening is gvfs tries to use the existing gvfsd and gvfsd-trash in the session (which have user privileges) which fails.
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-12-02 22:58:32 UTC 
I gotta figure gio is attempting to talk to gvfsd over dbus and that's not working out between root and the user...
Comment 4 Ross Lagerwall 2014-06-07 11:50:21 UTC 
Yeah, this is not supported. See the section "Running applications under root" in https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/doc