GVFS is the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote and local data via a variety of protocols, and maintains file metadata.
Questions tagged [gvfs]
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What is the difference between "Unmount", "Eject", "Safely Remove Drive" and the eject icon?
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The Places side pane in Nautilus has some kind of eject…
ændrük
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Playing iPhone (iOS10) music in Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 14.04
I have been using Rhythmbox on Ubuntu 14.04 to play music from my iPhone for a while now. Sometimes I get the annoying "initialize your iPhone" dialog box, but I just cancel it, unmount and reconnect my phone, and the problem is solved.
Background:…
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gvfsd-admin daemon authentication forces me to restart Ubuntu - VERY annoying!
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a new partition less than a week ago. I have not yet gotten all the basic stuff to work. But now, from time to time, 20.04 pops up a small window saying "Authentication is required to run gvfsd-admin daemon". But even…
Henrik R.
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Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user//gvfs?
From what I read, when mounting a network share via nautilus or gvfs-mount the mount point should be in ~/.gvfs. This seems not to be the case for me: I tried mounting both an FTP and SMB share via both nautilus and gvfs-mount under both Ubuntu…
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Can't empty trash
I visited a lot of forums but found no answer. I have 5 files in my trash bin and I can't delete them, at first after I clicked on the empty trash button it would freeze, now when I do that it just says "preparing" and displays an error while trying…
Nikobitan
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USB drive auto-mounted by user but gets write permissions for root only
I am trying to use my ext4 USB drive but Ubuntu 13 is currently mounting it with write permission only for root so with my normal user I can't write to it, without sudo.
The first place I checked was dconf-editor which has the following…
Adam
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Where did ~/.gvfs go on Ubuntu 12.10?
Where did ~/.gvfs go on Ubuntu 12.10. How can I find the location of the mounted through samba folders?
I share a folder with a Ubuntu 12.10 machine. I am trying to find the location of the mount point on another Ubuntu 12.10 machine that I've…
Born
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How to automount a gvfs file system on logon
I configured a remote folder in nautilus. I always need this remote folder, so I created a symbolic link to it in my home folder: ln -s ~/.gvfs/remote_folder ~/remote_folder.
Though, when I first boot the computer this folder is not mounted, and I…
Pedro Rolo
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How to access gvfs mounts from command line?
I have some samba share mounted via Nautilus and I'd like to access the files from command line. They used to appear under $HOME/.gvfs but not any more.
Where have they gone to?
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Only root can mount /dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 - contribute to external usb drive
I can't understand why, when I tried plug-in external USB driver in Ubuntu 12.04, I see next message:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1
Here is content of…
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jbd2 constantly writing to disk
I know there are related issues, but none of them seem to apply to my case. Below is iotop output. jbd2 is constantly above 90% usage. It's been grinding away for 2 days. It stops for a while after a reboot, but then starts again after some time.…
Curvian Vynes
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Saving a file in gedit prints a warning in terminal
I recently installed a GRUB theme from gnome-look.org on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (my PC is Windows 10 dual-boot with Ubuntu). To install the theme successfully, the file at /etc/default/grub needs to be edited.
So I used sudo gedit /etc/default/grub…
Abhay Patil
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Nautilus occasionally stops working
On ubuntu 14.04 LTS, sometimes my computer fails to launch Nautilus. This always happens when I have been working on it for a while (maybe after suspending and waking it again?), never when I just turned it on.
I suspect this is related to gvfs…
Martino
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Strange connections by gvfsd-http --spawner
For a little while now, a strange connection has been showing up on my netstat made by the command:
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.1 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
By the time I notice it, the connection is always at the closed state. Every time…
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How to restart gvfs?
How to restart the whole gvfs "subsystem", when I've e.g. killed a frozen gvfs-sftp process and want to use it again?
GVFS is the subsystem that takes care about mounting/unmounting drives when you click them in Nautilus, including network…
Martin Pecka
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