/var/lib/gdm oddness.

Miloslav Trmac mitr at volny.cz
Wed Mar 12 20:36:54 UTC 2008


Dave Jones napsal(a):
> Anyone know whats up with the permissions on /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs ?
> On upgrade of certain packages, I'm seeing the error..
> cannot access /var/lib/gdm/.gvfs: Permission denied
> 
> ls -l of that shows..
> 
> d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?                ? .gvfs/
> 
> My initial thought was 'eek, filesystem corruption'.
By default, FUSE prohibits access to mount points by other users (to 
make sure FUSE can't be used to exploit other user's applications). 
Does it (ls -l) look better when run as user gdm?
	Mirek




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