Gnome trash:// doesn't display ~/.Trash

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

Wow, this is annoying. I posted the same thing in another thread, but it was marked [SOLVED] (and didn't solve mine) so I'm starting a new thread here. My apologies if this is answered somewhere else, I've searched a ton, really!

* On the Gnome desktop the Trash icon (and panel applet for that matter) is always displaying empty.
* Deleting a file from the desktop, or anywhere else, using the file browser places the deleted files in ~/.Trash
* Similarly, dragging a file into the Gnome Trash icon places the file into ~/.Trash.
* Opening the trash icon, or applet, or Trash "location" or "trash://" in the file browser shows it as always empty.

* Deleted files do exist in ~/.Trash.
* File-browsing ~/.Trash directly does indeed show the deleted files. (ala # ls ~/.Trash)

* Double-click the Trash icon to browse it (empty) - I can drag-n-drop items into the browse window, and they are not displayed. (now reside in ~/.Trash)

* This isn't a specific user's setting problem. I created a new-user (never touched gnome) and it behaved identically.

* I'm running all the latest and greatest ~x86 stuff:
hal-0.5.4
dbus-0.36.2
gamin-0.1.7
gnome-vfs-2.12.1.1
nautilus-2.12.1-r1
gnome-2.12.1

kernel ver. 2.6.14 (gentoo-sources)

* I've tried rebuilding the above packages. I've done a revdep-rebuild as well (it changed nothing.)

* Inotify is in my running kernel, and seems to be working just fine. ie, file-browsing a directory while creating/deleting a file within it from a terminal instantly shows it being created/deleted. (furthermore, Beagle works and displays new finds really quickly.)

* Nautilus seems to pass all of its own internal checks:
$ nautilus -c
running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities
running nautilus_self_check_file_operations
running nautilus_self_check_directory
running nautilus_self_check_file
running nautilus_self_check_icon_container
running nautilus_self_check_icon_factory
running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities
running nautilus_self_check_file_operations
running nautilus_self_check_directory
running nautilus_self_check_file
running nautilus_self_check_icon_container
running nautilus_self_check_icon_factory

I'm at a complete loss here, and this is quite frustrating of course.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

cereal-chiller · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject:

I'm having the same problem.. have you figure it out??
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J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

doh! I saw a reply, and thought I'd an answer!

Nah, sorry. I've not figured this out. I've had this problem for weeks now, I think, unsolved.
And that is after doing plenty of searching here, gnome, google, etc.... no luck at all.

Lokheed · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:58 am Post subject:

This was fixed in Nautilus 2.11.0 right before release:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171073

Go down to Comment #11, it describes what you are experiencing.
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J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

Lokheed: Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it doesn't help.

I think that I read that bug, and concluded it wasn't what I was experiencing. ie, my /home
isn't a separate partition (just subdir of / ), I'm not using removeable media, and haven't even
tested this with non /home/{myself} directories.

Furthermore, the bug indicates that this (or similar) was a "show stopper" from the 2.12 version.
As I posted above, I'm using Nautilus-2.12.1 and all "~x86" emerged stuff, so... /shrug.

Thanks though! Maybe I should submit this info into that gnome bug #171073 you referenced?
It certainly seems related, but that was marked "Solved" so I wonder if it would therefore be better
to submit a new bug to gnome, or if this is a purely gentoo related thing.

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

here goes.... something.

emerge -e gnome

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

no luck, because other things have stopped a full "emerge -e gnome" so far.

Not that I think that this will fix it...

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

I finished the "emerge -e gnome" successfully.

No luck. Trash is still non-functional.

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

Well, since it seems not many people are having this problem, I'm unsure if this is just user error, a gentoo issue, or a gnome problem.
Regardless, I've submitted this bug in two places:
gnome : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171073
gentoo : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111719

So, we'll see!

J_Omega · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 18

ok, this MIGHT help (someone other than me)

For an unknown reason - I suddenly saw mounted drives icons appear on the
desktop. This included a certain networked SSH drive icon (that I wasn't logged
into.) When these showed up - the Trash can icon suddenly changed to non-empty.
I then rebooted - and haven't seen them since

This made me wonder why. So... gconf-editor -> apps -> nautilus -> desktop:
I have the volumes_visible marked true, but drive icons aren't on the desktop.
Doing a: gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible -t boolean -s false
with the gconf-editor open shows an instantaneous change there (the same for
"true" - the boolean state flips) but nothing on the desktop appears to change.

Are these related? I'm unsure. All I know is that when I saw the drives and
the icon for the SSH mount (unmounted) the Trash bin became OK. (until logout)

nick843 · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 25

I have this exact problem as well. Has anyone come up with a solution?

Jorgo · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject:

Try to re-emerge hal, ivman, dbus, pmount, gamin and gnome-vfs.
That fixed the problem for me.