[PLUG] What's Up With This Weird .gvfs Directory?

[Galen Seitz]

Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've recently installed Fedora Core 9 and I'm now dealing with little 
> system upchucks here and there. I'm getting an error in my logs that 
> says "df: `/root/.gvfs': Transport endpoint is not connected". So I 
> looked into root's directory and when I ls -al, I get the following:
> 
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Transport endpoint is not connected
> total 236
> drwxr-x--- 25 root root  4096 2008-06-21 06:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root  4096 2008-06-18 14:10 ..
> . . .
> d?????????  ? ?    ?        ?                ? .gvfs
> . . .
> 
> (The ". . ." would be replaced by the normal files listing.) 
> Furthermore, I can't do anything with this directory. I can't cd or rm 
> -r  it, nor chmod, nor even 'ls .gvfs'.
> 
> I've also got it in my normal user accounts, too.
> 
> What is it and how do I get rid of it?

Perhaps its the FC9 version of this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/212789
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531516

galen