gvfs and rpm: stat errors

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 28/01/2008, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 14:44 -0500, 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?
[ ... ]
>
> r-xr-xr-x is the type as returned by the fuse filesystem
> rwx------ is the on disk permissions
>
> We should probably fix the permissions reported by fuse, but the kernel
> limits fuse access to the user anyway.

Note that you also get very similar errors if you have filesystems
mounted through fusessh.

MEF

-- 
Dr. Mary Ellen Foster  --  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh