trash icon always full

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

My trash applet shows that there are items in the trashcan and shows the "full" icon, but:

~$ cd .local/share/Trash
~/.local/share/Trash$ ls -lR
.:
total 12K
drwx------ 2 user user 4.0K 22 jun 12:21 expunged/
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4.0K 22 jun 12:21 files/
drwx------ 2 user user 4.0K 22 jun 12:21 info/

./expunged:
total 0

./files:
total 0

./info:
total 0

I'm reporting this from Jaunty:
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

The problem fixes itself (most of the times) when I log out and in again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Until now the problem has happened randomly. More exactly, I haven't noticed what have I done to cause it, although I think it has to do with deleting files in removable media, but I cannot be sure.

If I manage to reproduce it, I'll post the results here.

[khamil8686 (khamil8686)]

i second this, running Ubuntu Jaunty and for some reason the trash icon said trash is full and even emptying root and sole user of the computer's trash from the command line didnt work to fix, log out worked fine to fix the problem. not really a problem but annoyance :)

[Andy Gruyaert (andy-gruyaert-base)]

I also had the same (tiny) issue. I'm also running Ubuntu 9.04 and the trash icon was the "full icon" but entering the trash "properties" showed "Contents: nothing". Logging out and back in resolved the problem.

[David (davidhoch-hh)]

I have the same problem in Kubuntu. Some month ago, the effect appeared only temporarily. But now the trash bin shows permanently the icon for "trash bucket is full" (even though there are no files in there).

[Shaun Thomas (shaun-bonesmoses)]

This is probably a duplicate of #269441.

[Kip Warner (kip)]

I also confirm this problem and can attest to the observations noted previously. I am running Lucid on amd64.

[Darius Kulikauskas (dkulikauskas)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and I remember it happening on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit (just did not bother to report it). It is reproducible: it happens after "Empty Trash" procedure (when selected from the icon context menu on the panel), but not always.

[antonioni (antonioni-rocha)]

This problem persists in Ubuntu 14.04, aff.

[mcandre (andrew-pennebaker)]

Lol, this bug is back from Ubuntu 9 all the way to 14.04.

A dialog box says "Preparing" for five seconds, disappears, without doing anything.

[mcandre (andrew-pennebaker)]

By the way, manually emptying the trash with `rm` does not help, nor does rebooting.

[mcandre (andrew-pennebaker)]

I'm happy to report that the trashcan was actually working correctly for me!

Turns out a network drive had bad permissions for its .Trash/ folder, not Ubuntu's fault.