no Trash folder for root user

[sefs]

This bug is not new to karmic i have seen it in jaunty but it never bother me until now.

This is a fresh install of Karmic from the Alternate CD

There is NO root user trash folder.

That is, /root/.local/share/Trash does not exist.

If i launch nautilus with the gksudo command I get this error...

***
The folder contents could not be displayed.
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported
***

Browsing via the terminal does not reveal a /root/.local/share/Trash

Unto my problem...
Where do delete files go when deleted in nautilus when nautilus is launched with gksudo.

I deleted a sizable file but the diskspace was not returned to me from this deleted file which means it is still on the disk, I know not where.

Can someone tell me where to look.

Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 8 12:00:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[MestreLion (mestrelion)]

I've also noticed this in both 10.04 Lucid and 10.10 Maverick.

The root user HAS a trash folder (at /root/.local/share/Trash), with the info and files subfolders.

The problem is.. clicking trash at Nautilus (as root) gives the error "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported" as informed by the OP.

So root user has a trash, the deleted files are there, but Nautilus can not access it. Root can not restore the files or clean the trash the same way a normal user can. Nautilus implementation of trash is broken for the root user.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. I have reported it upstream. You can follow its progress at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657055 if you like.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

starting nautilus with sudo is not something that should be done/which is going to be made to work properly