I made a fresh install of dapper in vmware, with /home on a separate partition. I was unable to reproduce the bug.
Then I moved the user's home directory into /, umounted /home and then moved the user's home dir into /home (i.e. not as a separate partition anymore). I was still unable to reproduce the bug. Here is the output of /proc/mounts (after I umounted /home): rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/sda1 /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0 tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0 -- Trash always empty. https://launchpad.net/bugs/34247 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs