Gnome Trash don't empty

[Miguel Ruiz]

When I try to empty my Gnome trash, nothing is erased.

I use Gnome 2.14.3, Ubuntu Dapper up to date.

[frogzoo (frogzoo)]

How are you deleting trash?

Righ click on the Garbage Bin icon, & select Empty Garbage Bin.

Afterwards, ~/.Trash should be empty.

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

I did it; right click on the icon and select "Empty" but files don't remove.

[frogzoo (frogzoo)]

please paste results of

whoami
ls -ld ~/.trash
ls -ld ~/.Trash

Also, what do you get when you right click the garbage applet, & select "About"

[frogzoo (frogzoo)]

and also, which type of file system is /home mounted on? ext2/3 or vfat?

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

mruiz@rath:~$ whoami
mruiz

mruiz@rath:~$ ls -ld /home/mruiz/.Trash/
8,0K drwx------ 23 mruiz mruiz 8,0K 2006-08-06 18:34 /home/mruiz/.Trash/

Filesystem: ext3

[Jan Visser (starquake)]

I think I had the same problem. It said there was 1 item. But there was none in it.
In the file .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache it seems it caches information about the trash can. There was a line pointing to a patch that did not exist anymore. When I deleted the file, and reloaded the trashcan applet by removing/adding it (maybe logout would work too) it was working probably again.

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

Graphic solutions not work; I need to delete the files through

$ rm -rf .~/.Trash/*

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

I'm using Edgy. No errors with Gnome Trash.

[Jan Visser (starquake)]

I'm using Edgy too. And the problem appeared again.
Removing ./.gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache fixed it though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

If you get the problem again could you attach your .trash_entry_cache to a comment?

[Miguel Ruiz (mruiz)]

Since I uploaded my Ubuntu to Edgy, this problem don't appear.

mruiz@rath:~$ cat .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
/dev/shm -
/proc/bus/usb -
/var/lock -
/var/run -
/ -

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

letting the bug closed then, feel free to reopen if you get the problem again