trash is not being updated in gnome

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I'm not sure if this is a gvfs issue or a gnome issue, but when using gvfs, the trash on the gnome desktop and the trash-applet aren't being updated properly. They don't change icons when trash is added and they don't actually register that trash is gone when it is emptied. Also, emptying trash from the right-click menus hasn't worked for me.

I'm using Hardy Beta 1.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you use the cd or an installation? What filesystem is used? How do you move things to the trash? What do you mean than the right click menu action didn't work? Did you get an error?

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I installed fresh from the Beta cd. I use JFS. It's happened whether I click and drag or if I delete using the delete key or by right clicking and deleting. I didn't get an error when I used the right-click menu action. Nothing happened.

This seems to happen more often with Compiz disabled, if that helps at all.

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=731397

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not confirming, could be due to a jfs bad interaction, not sure if gvfs has been tested a lot there

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Is there any way I can help to test? Or perhaps any kind of debug I could do? I know it's not the easiest bug to track down.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you are welcome to debug the corresponding code, otherwise that's not likely that somebody from the ubuntu team will work on that before hardy, jfs is not a standard option and we have limited ressources

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How might I go about doing that since it's not an error or a crash, just more of a logic bug?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the first thing would be look if file monitoring is working on jfs

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How would I do that? I have zero experience using gvfs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

install gvfs-bin, run gvfs-monitor-dir .local/share/Trash, delete some file and note if the monitor list the changes

[Albert Y. C. Lai (trebla)]

I can reproduce this both in LiveCD and in an installation upgraded from 7.10 and updated to the latest updates. Compiz on in both cases.

I use reiserfs. I will try ext3 later. (But if it happens in LiveCD it's bad enough.)

One set of steps I did:

Boot LiveCD
Create folder or create document on desktop (nautilus).
Delete it. Can be: click it and press delete; "move to trash"; open trash window, drag the file to trash window.
Result: trash can icon isn't updated; hover mouse to it and it still says "no item"; and if you opened trash window and dragged the file there, the window doesn't show change, until you click "reload".

There are two things making this hard to reproduce:

Some events cause this problem to disappear. Inserting a USB flash stick is one. E.g., do the above steps, get that result, now insert a USB flash stick, the trash can is suddenly updated.

As soon as the problem disappears, it disappears for good, for that account, even across reboots. You have to create a fresh account to reproduce it. (Of course the reboot part doesn't apply to LiveCD, since that one creates a fresh account.)

[Albert Y. C. Lai (trebla)]

I have tried a fresh install plus update on ext3. Same observation.

[Ryan Wynn (ryan.m.wynn)]

I can confirm this also. I have an ext3 filesystem and all updates have been applied since 8.04 Beta.

After doing a rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* and verifying there is nothing in there the icon still shows trash in the bin.

[Vishal Ravishankar (vishr)]

Another account of Trash not being updated. Upgraded to Hardy yesterday with all the updates done.

1. When I delete a file, the trash icon remains empty and on "Emptying Trash" the files delete permanently. But when I right click on the trash icon (as in the screenshot) the "Empty Trash" dialog remains.

2. And on multiple attempts on deleting files, the trash icon obeys and shows it contains some files yet the 2nd problem still remains (as in screenshot)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is the issue about the nautilus trash or the trash applet? could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug?

[Vishal Ravishankar (vishr)]

the trash applet present in the panel.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.