Dolphin Trash problem.

[kdemeoz]

Hello

Yesterday & today something weird has happened to Dolphin's Trash folder / directory. I assume that the following misbehaviour probably would be fixed simply by logging out & in again, or else rebooting, but instead i would like to see if there's a way to fix it without needing to do either of those.

Whilst currently there a lot of files in Trash, it is very far away from being full. However, since yesterday, i can no longer delete any files from my /home [or anywhere else] by sending them to Trash [though i can still permanently delete them, bypassing Trash, if i want]. Furthermore, i cannot now empty Trash either.

When i try sending more files to Trash, this appears:
   

When i try emptying Trash, this appears.
   

I investigated, & found that there were both of the following:
1. /home/kdemeoz/.Trash --> is empty.
2. /home/kdemeoz/.local/share/Trash --> holds my actual deleted "trashed" files.

For comparison i then launched my two Maui 17.03 VMs [all the above pertains to my "real" Maui]. Both of them have NO #1, but do have #2.

Accordingly, back in my "real" Maui i deleted #1, but it has not helped.

What's going on here pls?

[kdemeoz]

I began writing the initial post above several hours ago, but became sidetracked all day  on unrelated issues. This morning when i wrote that post [draft], /home/kdemeoz/.local/share/Trash Permissions dialog [Dolphin Properties] showed that i was the Owner, & it was in my Group.

However just now, all these hours later [& with the pc still not having been logged out or rebooted, coz it's too inconvenient for those right now], another mysterious problem has occurred; Trash's ownership & group have changed:

   

This is really bonkers. BTW, it's sad nobody ever replied, but relatively recently my Tower also experienced a different but equally baffling/unexplained Group change, as i posted here https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread.php?tid=24417.

[kdemeoz]

I hoped that a chown might help, but it didn't.

Code:

kdemeoz@GA-Z97-HD3:~/.local/share$ sudo chown -R kdemeoz:kdemeoz Trash
[sudo] password for kdemeoz:

kdemeoz@GA-Z97-HD3:~/.local/share$ cd Trash
kdemeoz@GA-Z97-HD3:~/.local/share/Trash$ ls -l
total 120
-rw-rw-r--  1 kdemeoz kdemeoz   457 May 10 14:40 directorysizes
drwxrwxr-x 14 kdemeoz kdemeoz 49152 May 21 21:44 files
drwxrwxr-x  2 kdemeoz kdemeoz 53248 May 21 21:44 info
kdemeoz@GA-Z97-HD3:~/.local/share/Trash$

Those Konsole permissions now look correct for Trash [at least, now they agree with my VM Maui's], but back in Dolphin i still cannot empty Trash nor add any more deleted files to it. Sigh.

[leszek]

Maybe removing the whole Trash folder (I guess you don't need the files in there anymore) and recreating it might help.
Permissions should be

Code:

drwx------ 1 leszek leszek    62 Mai  6 11:37 Trash

and inside that Folder

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 leszek leszek  112 Okt 23  2016 directorysizes
drwx------ 1 leszek leszek 1820 Mai  6 11:37 files
drwx------ 1 leszek leszek 2500 Mai  6 11:37 info
-rw------- 1 leszek leszek   23 Dez 21 13:24 metadata

Though I think it should be enough to just recreate the Trash folder and leave the rest Plasma for handling.
After recreation you need to relogin I guess.

[kdemeoz]

Thanks. Given that your suggestion also would have involved logging out & in again, which was what i had hoped to avoid but now realised it was unavoidable, i decided that before i tried your idea i would log out anyway to see if that made my already-done chown "take effect". My thinking was that if my normal Trash permissions, hence behaviour, did not return after i logged back in, then i would try your idea. Happily, after i logged out & in, everything is back to normal.

So that's good, but still weird... yesterday & today Trash went mad & lost its Permissions/Group, & per that other post, a few weeks ago my HDD [but luckily not also my SSD, which is where Maui is] changed its Permissions/Group.

Crazy.

[leszek]

Regarding the permission change which seems strange. Might be a broken filesystem.
Keep checking it with fsck.
If it's not an application causing this issue it can only be a broken filesystem.

[kdemeoz]

...Might be a broken filesystem.
Keep checking it with fsck...

Oh? Hmmm, ok, thanks. Next time i need to reboot [eg, maybe after the next kernel updates come through] i shall try to remember to boot first from my Maui LiveUSB stick then run fsck on each partition. 

[kdemeoz]

If it's not an application causing this issue it can only be a broken filesystem.

Well, i've just rebooted Tower from live media & run fsck on my root, home & data partitions... all clean.