Ubuntu
nautilus package

Can't access trash in nautilus as root

Bug #875207 reported by Goyo
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #494082: no Trash folder for root user. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Open nautilus using sudo nautilus, gksu nautilus or nautilus-gksu and try access the trash. A message box appears:
"Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported"
Items in the trash are not shown, can't empty the trash, etc.

Currently using Ubuntu 11.10 bit it happened in previous versions too.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it's not recommended to run graphical applications under sudo this way

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Goyo (goyodiaz) wrote :

I know and I do not expect random applications (or nautilus in particular) to work well with sudo, gksudo or gksu. But there is a package nautilus-gksu in main and people install it and then nautilus do not work as expected. Maybe the bug is in nautilus-gksu?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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