Comment 6 for bug 85608

I'm using Feisty, with 2.6.20.16 kernel. Gnome-applets and Gnome-applets-data versions: 2.18.0-0ubuntu1

 Same here. It happened to me twice already.

The first time, I emptied my trash-bin, X freezed, I rebooted. I lost 230Go of personnal data. Which was exactly the content of my external hard disk (formatted in FAT32). Only a few files were still there, as I rebooted the machine short after the beginning of the freeze.

I then reinstalled the system, just keeping my /home. Same thing happened, except that this time, not only the external disk appeared in the trash-applet but the whole system.

Deleting .trash_entry_cache sorted out the problem.

I strongly believe this issue is not as "low" as it is.