Home directory files invisible!

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 01:37 -0500, John H wrote:
> I've had a strange problem occurring lately - after a reboot my home
> folder's contents aren't shown in nautilus or thunar, and ls -a hangs
> when ran as a user. ls -a runs correctly and shows all the files when
> ran as root. I have checked the folder and file permissions for the
> folder and they are all normal - Create and Delete access for my user.
> Sometimes a reboot will fix the issue. Very irritating bug.

You need Execute permission for directories to be able to look up files
in them. And Read permission to be able to list them. Typically a home
directory should be 0755.

poc