Bug#814510: nautilus: Can't delete files in a tmpfs

[Mike Hommey]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.18.5-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

My /tmp is a tmpfs. I had the "interesting" idea to try to remove
temporary (big) files using nautilus. That was a bad idea. The first
surprise is that nautilus doesn't have an option to remove files
anymore, you can only move them to the garbage bin. So I did that.
Then opened to the garbage bin, where the files didn't appear, and
where the options to empty the bin, or restore files are greyed out.

I thought that was the end of the story, and that it ended up deleting
the files, but in fact, it didn't, and I ended up with a full /tmp
because of them sitting in /tmp/.Trash-$uid with no way to see them in
nautilus.

Interestingly, goofing around, I now also discovered that after moving a
file to the garbage bin, there's a pop-over that proposes to restore the
file, in case the user made a mistake. I tried that, for the kicks... it
doesn't work (which, considering all the above, is not all that
surprising)

Mike


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.18.1-1
ii  gvfs                       1.26.2-1+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.21-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.6-1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.6-1
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.2-2+b1
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.18.7-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.32.3-1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.46.2-3
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.46.2-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12      3.18.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.18.7-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.18.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.38.1-1
ii  libselinux1                2.4-3
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.6.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  nautilus-data              3.18.5-1
ii  shared-mime-info           1.5-2

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.18.0-2
ii  gvfs-backends              1.26.2-1+b1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.13-2

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.12.1-1
ii  eog                    3.18.1-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.18.2-1
ii  totem                  3.18.1-2+b1
ii  tracker                1.6.1-2
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.2.2-3+b1
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.2.2-3+b1
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-2

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