First, Emacs froze when I tried to list my home directory, then "ls -a" froze from command line. Through trial and error, it appears that there is a file, directory, or special file in my home directory that begins with ".gvfs". Any attempts to list the contents of the directory that should include .gvfs* fails and locks up the program that issued the command; emacs, ls -a in bash shell, etc. The close icon in the upper right hand corner of the frame will cause a pop-dialog to appear that allows the program to be "force quit".
Any ideas on how to resolve this problem? Can I safely do a "rm -rf .gvfs*" or will that delete files that my system needs?
The command "ls -ad .gvfs*" also locks up which leads me to suspect that .gvfs is a special file, such as a device, instead of a directory.
On 08/03/2009 12:56 AM, Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
First, Emacs froze when I tried to list my home directory, then "ls -a" froze from command line. Through trial and error, it appears that there is a file, directory, or special file in my home directory that begins with ".gvfs". Any attempts to list the contents of the directory that should include .gvfs* fails and locks up the program that issued the command; emacs, ls -a in bash shell, etc. The close icon in the upper right hand corner of the frame will cause a pop-dialog to appear that allows the program to be "force quit".
Any ideas on how to resolve this problem? Can I safely do a "rm -rf .gvfs*" or will that delete files that my system needs?
The command "ls -ad .gvfs*" also locks up which leads me to suspect that .gvfs is a special file, such as a device, instead of a directory.
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