Whenever I try to enter a directory like thunar /home/enrico/.gvfs/sftp\ for\ enrico\ on\ uvena.de/tmp Thunar jumps to the parent directory until it reaches my home directory. I made a short screencast to demonstrate what happens: http://www.uvena.de/tmp/thunar_dir_jumping.ogv Additionally, I added a screenshot of how Thunar shows /home/enrico/.gvfs, there is a small lock emblem in the directory icon. But according to ls -l, it has 500 permissions which are enough to enter and read its contents. And also, before Thunar jumps to the parent directory, it shortly displays the content of the directory. [16:59] enrico@ukio (0): ~$ ls -al ~ | /bin/grep .gvfs dr-x------ 3 enrico enrico 0 18. Jan 09:30 .gvfs System is Debian Sid/Experimental. Thunar from trunk. Any ideas?
Created attachment 2090 Thunar shows a 'lock' emblem in the directory icon
IIRC Debian supports only FAM currently, which is running as root. FUSE may disallow FAM access to your .gvfs, causing FAM to tell Thunar that the directory was deleted. Try disabling FAM.
Confirmed, disabling FAM (I stopped famd) does the trick. But this isn't a solution.
The problem, as stated, is FAM running as root and the FUSE wrapper preventing root access. The current solution is to use gamin (which Debian doesn't ship IIRC). The real solution is to use GVfs.
Debian has Gamin, at least Unstable/Experimental. But yes, using GVFS would be the best. So, I'll check whether replacing FAM with Gamin will work and if not, I'll wait for Jannis' GIO branch to be usable.
After switching from FAM to Gamin, all works as expected (even on Debian :D).
*** Bug 4951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please reopen if this is still an issue with the latest Thunar release.