Help with d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs

[William M. Quarles]

davide wrote:
> William M. Quarles <walrus <at> bellsouth.net> writes:
>> I have a directory in my home directory named .gvfs with the following 
>> properties when I do an ls -Al:
>>
>> d?????????  ? ?       ?            ?                ? .gvfs
>>
>> I can't access it, delete it, nor rename it; nor can root do any of 
>> those things. I keep getting error messages in the terminal saying as 
>> such, too. Does anybody know how I can fix this?
> 
> I had the same after changing my uid and gid.
> I tried for a while to deal with this file, then I simple gave up.
> After the reboot, it was simple to delete it :-)
> 
> (I suppose it's better to delete it, outside gnome session)
> 
> 

Yeah, I had to go into rescue mode with an installation disc and run 
fsck, through which the problem was fixed. No deletion necessary!

Peace,
William