trash cannot empty _copy_2.nzb

[R. C. Pao]

Pan newsreader saves _copy_2.nzb to my directory. I use Nautilus to delete it. The file is visible in my trash can; however, I cannot empty it. I can empty everything else except that file from the trash can using the applet. I can manually delete it from bash.

rcpao@bun:/.Trash-1000$ rm files/_copy_2.nzb info/_copy_2.nzb.trashinfo

Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, why can't you empty it? what error do you get if you try?

[R. C. Pao (rcpao)]

I have no idea why they do not get deleted while everything else around it gets deleted. There is no error message displayed (no pop ups anyway). A user applet should not be able to syslog, so I didn't check /var/log for anything. Since I can delete them from the terminal from my user account (no need to sudo), it's not a permission problem.

It may be due to the fact that I use /.Trash-1000/ for my trash directory. I have a couple of different partitions I use, and I believe I needed to do this to be able to have the trash can work for non-home partitions.

So for a test, I created _underline_file_from_Desktop.txt on my Desktop (home partition), _underline_file.txt and deleteme.txt in a non-home partition. Deleting them all in Nautilus will display all three in Trash. Clicking Empty Trash button, two files are erased; however, _underline_file.txt remains in the Trash. No errors occur.

I suspect it has something to do with the leading "_" in the file name to be emptied.

rcpao@bun:/.Trash-1000$ ls -R
.:
files/ info/

./files:
deleteme.txt _underline_file.txt

./info:
deleteme.txt.trashinfo _underline_file.txt.trashinfo

[You will note that _underline_file_from_Desktop.txt is not here, I believe it is in ~/.local/share/Trash, but I did not specifically check since it is working.
[Empty Trash] button is clicked at this point.

rcpao@bun:/.Trash-1000$ ls -R
.:
files/ info/

./files:
_underline_file.txt

./info:
_underline_file.txt.trashinfo
rcpao@bun:/.Trash-1000$

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, that's similar to bug #203195