Bug 253090

Summary: Trash doesn't work on AFS filesystems
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jack Neely <jjneely>
Component: gnome-vfs2Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.0CC: tsmetana, vbenes
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Enable Trash on AFS filesystems none

Description Jack Neely 2007-08-16 21:30:53 UTC 
Description of problem:

Here at NCSU all home directories are in AFS.  I received a bug report
today that some users were having trouble with the Trash functionality
on the Gnome desktop.  You can drag stuff into Trash and the files are
magically transported to ~/.Trash as expected.  However, the Trash icon
never appears "full", opening Trash always shows you that its empty.
You cannot select Empty Trash.  The users' quota fills up, and they
don't know where the stuff the Trash'd has gone.

Turns out in line 40 in gnome-vfs-filesystem-type.c in the gnome-vfs2
package the Trash functionality is specifically turned off for AFS.

Is there a specific reason for this?  Can this be turned on upstream?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-vfs2-2.16.2-4.el5

This bug is similar to Bug #159652 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/34247
Comment 1 Jack Neely 2007-08-16 21:40:07 UTC 
Created attachment 161696 [details]
Enable Trash on AFS filesystems
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-09-23 00:29:55 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 10:34:15 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.
Comment 5 Vladimir Benes 2012-04-23 14:23:10 UTC 
Hi,
can you still reproduce on current 5.8 system? As gvfs was tuned a lot of times and most other bugs connected to trash are unreproducible. Could you please verify that this bug still exists?

thanks,
Vladimir
Comment 6 Jack Neely 2012-04-23 17:19:51 UTC 
Vladimir,

At this point I think the issue is moot.  We've moved most of our desktop/workstation systems to RHEL 6 and the gvfs Trash functionality works well there.

So this bug can be closed.  However, I must say that I'm not pleased with an almost 5 year turn around on this bug especially when I attached patches to address this issue.

Jack Neely
Comment 7 Vladimir Benes 2012-04-24 12:20:37 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Vladimir,
> 
> At this point I think the issue is moot.  We've moved most of our
> desktop/workstation systems to RHEL 6 and the gvfs Trash functionality works
> well there.
> 
> So this bug can be closed.  However, I must say that I'm not pleased with an
> almost 5 year turn around on this bug especially when I attached patches to
> address this issue.
> 
> Jack Neely

yes, I agree that fixing this bug was a total failure, this sh*t falls to PM heads. :-(

closing now, thanks,
Vladimir