can't delete some files from root user direcoties from the trash, and the trash is not restorable

[Julianchu]

i deleted some files from root user directories, but I can't empty them from the trash
and I used rm -rf ~/.Trash/* in terminal, it just doesn't work

[SageMassa (jedd.bissegger)]

Can you be more specific as to the problem you are encountering?
Does the command rm -rf ~/.Trash/* return a msg or just return you to a prompt?

also can you please
cd ~/.Trash
then
ls -la
And then past the output...Thanks

[SageMassa (jedd.bissegger)]

This is likely a permissions issue

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

As Sage Massa said this is a permissions error. You can fix it by running "sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*"

The fact that your trash can get in to the unemptyable state is bug 3868. Trash not being restorable is bug 14412

[Paul Weiss (interweiss)]

Thanks. Same thing just happened to me after trying to compile some software.