/var/lib/gdm oddness.

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Mar 13 14:10:18 UTC 2008


On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Dave Jones wrote:

> 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'.
> Rebooting and running fsck picks up nothing.
> And in fact, when in runlevel 1, the permissions look sane.
>
> It seems when gdm starts up, it all goes to hell.
>
> Anyone else seeing the same thing ?

Yes, known thing... see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432907

 	- Panu -




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