gio trash (or gvfs-trash) on a vboxsf partition fails with "Unable to find or create trash directory"
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glib2.0 (Ubuntu) |
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gvfs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I am using an Ubuntu 18.04 Vagrant machine, which has had the ubuntu-mate-desktop tasksel applied to it. I mount a filesystem from the Virtualbox Host using this line in /etc/fstab:
HostHome /HostHome vboxsf _netdev,
With this build, I have installed the atom snap package, and when I try to remove a file from the file tree, I get an error saying:
The following file couldn't be moved to the trash.
/HostHome/
Is gvfs-trash installed?
On further investigation, I found that while gvfs-trash is installed (via the gvfs-common package), it has been depreciated, preferring gio. Running either `gio trash` or `gvfs-trash` specifying that path (`/HostHome/
gio: file://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libglib2.0-bin 2.56.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Fri Jun 1 08:26:04 2018
SourcePackage: glib2.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)