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I've recently(2 days ago) installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on x86-64 and today I am getting this error saying:

There was an error while getting the sharing information
Failed to execute child process "net" (No such file or directory)

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My question is is how can I solve this error. When this error occurs I am not able to use the file explorer anymore and everytime I've to restart the system. Then after restarting, after around 5 minutes the error keeps getting back.

Jason
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I had the same issue. With the error dialogue focused, Alt+F4 will kill it and allow you to use the filesystem. In my case it was caused by a directory that for some reason had different permissions than the others (drwxr-xr-x rather than drwxrwxr-x+). In my case it was probably because I had used ACL extensions (the +) for permissions and this directory was missing these. If this is the same case for you, you can compare a working vs problematic directory with getfacl <name> in a terminal to see the differences, and setfacl with options to update them.

flith
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