On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 2 gary gary 120 Aug 20 10:19 akonadi > drwx------ 2 gary gary 60 Aug 20 10:19 at-spi > srw-rw-rw- 1 gary gary 0 Aug 20 10:18 bus > drwx------ 3 gary gary 60 Aug 20 10:18 dbus-1 > drwx------ 2 gary gary 60 Aug 20 10:18 dconf > *d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc*
This comes up pretty frequently. The issue is, you're attempting to view the contents of that directory *as the wrong user*. If you showed us your shell prompt and the command you used, it would be much more apparent. unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000 total 0 drwx------ 2 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:35 at-spi/ srw-rw-rw- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 bus= drwx------ 3 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:33 dbus-1/ drwx------ 2 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:35 dconf/ dr-x------ 2 greg greg 0 Dec 31 1969 doc/ drwx------ 2 greg greg 140 Aug 11 07:33 gnupg/ srw-rw-rw- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 pipewire-0= -rw-r----- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 pipewire-0.lock drwx------ 2 greg greg 80 Aug 11 07:33 pulse/ drwxr-xr-x 5 greg greg 140 Aug 11 07:33 systemd/ See? All is well when *I* look at it. But *root* cannot see it: unicorn:~$ sudo ls -l /run/user/1000 [sudo] password for greg: ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/doc': Permission denied total 0 drwx------ 2 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:35 at-spi srw-rw-rw- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 bus drwx------ 3 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:33 dbus-1 drwx------ 2 greg greg 60 Aug 11 07:35 dconf d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc drwx------ 2 greg greg 140 Aug 11 07:33 gnupg srw-rw-rw- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 pipewire-0 -rw-r----- 1 greg greg 0 Aug 11 07:33 pipewire-0.lock drwx------ 2 greg greg 80 Aug 11 07:33 pulse drwxr-xr-x 5 greg greg 140 Aug 11 07:33 systemd This is fine, because root has no business poking around in my private stuff. So, this leads to the question: what are you trying to do? You don't back up the /run directory because it's ephemeral. Just leave it alone.
