gvfs and rpm: stat errors

[Andrew Farris]

Michel Salim wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 12:02 AM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 27, 2008 4:54 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Michel Salim wrote:
>>>> Ever since I updated nautilus, thus pulling in gvfs as a dependency, a
>>>> lot of RPM transactions outputs this error:
>>>>
>>>> error: failed to stat /home/michel/.gvfs: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> Anyone knows what's causing this?
>>>>
>>>> dr-xr-xr-x+   2 michel michel        0 2008-01-27 14:21 .gvfs
>>>>
>>>> $ getfacl ~/.gvfs
>>>> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
>>>> # file: home/michel/.gvfs
>>>> # owner: michel
>>>> # group: michel
>>>> user::r-x
>>>> group::r-x
>>>> other::r-x
>>> .gvfs should be drwx------
>>> You can't write to it as your own user right now.
>>>
>> Considering it created ~/.gvfs on its own, this sounds like a bug.
>>
> And indeed, if I kill the gvfs daemon, the permission is then 700, but
> once the daemon respawns it goes back to 555.
> 
> Bug?

Ah, that I'm not sure about, although the daemon appears to be running on my 
machine with the perms 700 still.  Whether it is intended to change them I don't 
know, but it sounds unlikely that not being able to write to it would be 
intentional unless some ACL trickery is supposed to be going on.

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