Strange GVFS Mount Point in HOME folder - How to restore to default?

Support & Help Requests
1

Hi!

When I plugin my usb drive then I have a strange mount point in my home folder of GVFS.

/home/user/"/run/user/1000"/gvfs
/home/user/"/run/user/1000"

How can I restore/revert back to default to:

/run/user/999/gvfs
/run/user/1000/gvfs

?

Please help, thanks!

2

also have empty folders and files in:

/run/user/1000

it's mounted here :confused:

/home/user/"/run/user/1000"

Need help to restore default path in

/run/user/1000

Which file must I edit to change the path of /home/user/"/run/user/1000
to
> /run/user/1000 ?

3

Please show the output of mount | grep gvfs command.

4

gvfsd-fuse on /home/user/"/run/user/1000"/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)

5

What do you have for below commands? ↓

ls -al /home/$USER/"/run/$USER/1000"/gvfs
ls -ald ~/.gvfs
6

Output:

1st:

ls: cannot access '/home/user//run/user/1000/gvfs': No such file or directory

2nd:

drwx------ 2 user user 4096 Jan 13 2018

see here: :-/
empty

7

Maybe it should be written as

ls -al /home/$USER/\"/run/$USER/1000\"/gvfs

what is the output?

8

Output of:

ls -al /home/$USER/"/run/$USER/1000"/gvfs

ls: cannot access '/home/user/"/run/user"/gvfs': No such file or directory

The path of gvfs is: (looked into caja)

/home/user/"/run/user/1000"/gvfs

but:
ls -al /home/user/"/run/user/1000"/gvfs

gives me:

ls: cannot access '/home/user//run/user/1000/gvfs': No such file or directory

9

So we can't do anything with this GVFS file/folder using its operating system.

Then I would recommend to boot computer from LiveCD/DVD/USB, mount home folder, ensure that needed GVFS file/folder is empty and then remove it using Caja with Administrative rights. Finally reboot to normal system and check results.

10

I have just entered

printenv XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

to see if paths are set correctly.

it's:
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"

not default:
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

printenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK

it's:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/run/user/1000"/keyring/ssh

not default:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh

how to revert back to?
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20dbus_xdg-runtime

is:

vim:set ft=sh sw=2 sts=2 et:

if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ] && [ -n "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ] &&
[ "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" = "/run/user/id -u" ] &&
[ -S "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus" ]; then

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus"
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
fi

if [ -x "/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment" ]; then
dbus-update-activation-environment --verbose --systemd
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
fi

maybee something wrong with this above?

Which file must be edited to
change "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR / SSH_AUTH_SOCK" path? (Environment)

11

wrong path in "/etc/security/pam_env.conf" was set.

Removed line:
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"

Rebooted.

printenv XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Now, it's back to path: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000

wrong line was:
"/run/user/1000"

gvfs is also back to /run/user/1000/gvfs

S O L U T I O N :slight_smile:

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12

It finally helped me to delete all ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/ftp:host=..... in the home directory.

Just to be sure, check if you have gvfs-fuse installed, which I probably accidentally deleted.

I didn't do any of the advice above!

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