Trash doesn't work on NFS mounted partitions

[Victor Engmark]

As reported elsewhere <http://askubuntu.com/questions/172620/how-to-enable-trash-for-nfs-mounts>:

The /home/users directory on my host is an NFS mount connected to a server which is not in my control. When deleting files in $HOME (/home/users/foo) with Nautilus I get the following message:

    Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?

    The file "..." cannot be moved to the trash.

Is there some way to enable trash for this mount point? I have write access to the partition, but even after creating the expected /home/users/.Trash-$(id -u) and setting the sticky bit, Nautilus still fails to use the trash.

When reading this question <http://askubuntu.com/questions/27176/how-does-the-trash-can-work-and-where-can-i-find-official-documentation-refer> and the Trash Specification <http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html> I found that $HOME/.local/share/Trash is the standard location (unless $XDG_DATA_HOME is set), and it looks like Nautilus is only half-aware of this: It does indeed write a $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/[filename]<.number>.trashinfo every time I try to delete a file, but the files are all empty and I still keep getting the error message.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-applets (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 12 12:12:47 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stéphane Gourichon (stephane-gourichon-lpad)]

Thank you for submitting this bug.

Can you please read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1996729 and tell if, as written there, "the user does not have permission to access to the root of the partition that is mounted" ?

Then please update this bug accordingly.

Thank you.

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

The user does not have access to write to the root of the partition, but it does have read access to the root (obviously) and write access to $HOME/.local/share/Trash and $HOME/.local/share/Trash/info/[filename]<.number>.trashinfo, as mentioned. But why should this matter? A normal user doesn't need access to the root directory of the local root partition to use trash properly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julien (jlab)]

Hi,

I have a Seagate Blackarmor NAS that I used to access via NFS. I think I have the same problem.

For a while the trash worked fine. But with upgrades I get now an error message when I try to move a file to the trash :
"Impossible to find or create the directory trash directory for /mountpoint/file"

The mountpoint is not in my home directory. I use NFS version 3 (the NAS doesn't accept NFS v. 4). I can create files and dirs. The problem is only with the trash.

It's strange because the trash worked previously with older Ubuntu release (I'm now on Ubuntu Gnome 16.10, I don't remember since when the trash doesn't work).

Regards, Julien.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is that still an issue in newer Ubuntu versions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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