.gvfs error while accessing home directory

[nethero]

I installed Xubuntu 11.10 but I keep on getting this annoying bug. Whenever I try to access the home folder I get a popup that says...

Failed to open directory "nethero"

Error starting file '/home/nethero/.gvfs
Transport endpoint is not connected

I can solve this by using umount to unmount .gvfs but the bug keeps coming back. I access my home folder all the time. Is there a permanent fix for this?

[jerrrys]

My .gvfs is empty. What do you have in yours? Try renaming .gvfs and see if the folder will regenerate.

[Morbius1]

I do not know the answer to the original problem but I would not rename ".gvfs". It's where the system mounts remote shares ( Samba, ftp, ssh, etc ... )

[dentaku65]

I do not know the answer to the original problem but I would not rename ".gvfs". It's where the system mounts remote shares ( Samba, ftp, ssh, etc ... )

Can you show your fstab?

cat /etc/fstab

Just as consideration: it is probably wrong to have mount point under your home dir.

[Morbius1]

Can you show your fstab?

cat /etc/fstab

Just as consideration: it is probably wrong to have mount point under your home dir.

If that question was directed to me the system does not place the mount instructions in fstab for remote shares.

When you use "Network" or "Connect to Server" the system creates the mount point in the user's home directory within the .gvfs subdirectory automatically.

[jerrrys]

When you use "Network" or "Connect to Server" the system creates the mount point in the user's home directory within the .gvfs subdirectory automatically.

so it will regenerate

[dentaku65]

If that question was directed to me the system does not place the mount instructions in fstab for remote shares.

When you use "Network" or "Connect to Server" the system creates the mount point in the user's home directory within the .gvfs subdirectory automatically.

Ok. Can you post the output of:

ls -alirt ~/.gvfs

Or just recreate .gvfs

mv ~/.gvfs ~/.gvfs.original

Then connect your remote resources

[Morbius1]

@nethero,

It appears that you are the victim of an almost 4 year old bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...fs/+bug/212789

You will note that there was an additional comment on that just 3 weeks ago. The workaround as noted in that bug report is to do exactly what you have been doing and that is to unmount the .gvfs folder. I have never experienced this myself and it's not even clear to me from your particular description that there is anything to unmount yet the unmount does resolve it - at least for the moment.

[nethero]

@nethero,

It appears that you are the victim of an almost 4 year old bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...fs/+bug/212789

You will note that there was an additional comment on that just 3 weeks ago. The workaround as noted in that bug report is to do exactly what you have been doing and that is to unmount the .gvfs folder. I have never experienced this myself and it's not even clear to me from your particular description that there is anything to unmount yet the unmount does resolve it - at least for the moment.

Ah. Thank you. I did umount it a couple of times but it kept coming back when I rebooted. I read that it was related to encrypting the home folder so I reinstalled but I did not choose the option to encrypt the home folder. So far no error message. I will mark the thread solved even though this bug still exists.

[Bluenoser81]

Bug still exists in Xubuntu 12.04. Using Thunar will result (sometimes) in not being able to see any of the files in your home directory due to the error in reading the hidden .gvfs folder. The workaround to quickly fix this temporarily (4+ years old bug), is to use:

sudo umount ~/.gvfs

Using this command from a terminal will enable you to browse your home directory again using Thunar.