Comment 88 for bug 225361

Here is a possible solution.

My system - Mint 19.1 x64 Cinnamon - had no .gvfs directory in /run - but it did have one in /home, causing the rclone backup tool to report errors. I discovered (from here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/387162-permission-denied-on-gvfs) that I could remove the .gvfs folder thusly:

sudo umount /home/<username>/.gvfs
sudo rm -rf /home/<username>/.gvfs

(That webpage lists a different method for removing the directory. That other method involves iodes; and that other method did not work on my system, but the one I gave above did.)

So far, gvfs seems to work without the .gvfs directory in /home. (That seems strange, considering there is no such directory in /run either.) Nor has the .gvfs folder been regenerated - at least not yet.