Even root cannot empty trash on /dev/shm via Nautilus

Bug #1013776 reported by David A. Kra
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Scenario: 10.04 on i7 up to date

Preproblem:
nonroot user creates files on /dev/shm and later deletes them via Nautilus.

Problem:
Neither nonroot nor root can successfully Go Trash in Nautilus.
 Popup: "The folder could not be displayed. Sorry could not display all the contents of "Trash". Operation not supported.

Circumvention:
From the command line, can "sudo rm -r /dev/shm/.Trash-0" in order to free up the space.

Tags: nautilus shm
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue seems resolved in the current version, when deleting some content from /dev/shm nautilus only propose to directly delete the item without using the trash

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Released
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