Here is a possible solution. My system - Mint 19.1 x64 Cinnamon - had no .gvfs directory in /run - but it did have one in /home, causing the rclone backup tool to report errors. I discovered (from here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/387162-permission-denied-on- gvfs) that I could remove the .gvfs folder thusly:
sudo umount /home/<username>/.gvfs sudo rm -rf /home/<username>/.gvfs (That webpage lists a different method for removing the directory. That other method involves iodes; and that other method did not work on my system, but the one I gave above did.) So far, gvfs seems to work without the .gvfs directory in /home. (That seems strange, considering there is no such directory in /run either.) Nor has the .gvfs folder been regenerated - at least not yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 Title: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/225361/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
