Richard S. Crawford wrote:
jim lawrence said:
Log in as yourself.
Open a shell.
$ su
password: xxxxxx
# cd .Trash-jimf (assuming your user name is jimf)
# ls -la
This should list the files in your trash directory that you didn't see
when you logged in as root at the login screen. You should then be
able to do:
# rm *
to delete those files. Though before doing that, I'd do a pwd, just
to make sure you're in the right directory.
As to how those files got into your trash folder in the first place
when they have a userid totally different from your own user account,
I can't explain that.
like i said, i tried to build mplayer before and a whole lot of
problems. so i scrapped all of it and went a different way
here is the output you asked for..
-- [root@localhost Trash]# ls -la
total 24
drwx------ 2 jim jim 4096 Dec 28 09:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 jim jim 4096 Jan 6 11:31 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jim jim 1524 Jan 1 12:40 .directory
[root@localhost Trash]# pwd
/home/jim/Desktop/Trash
[root@localhost Trash]# rm *
rm: cannot lstat `*': No such file or directory
[root@localhost Trash]#
This is why I suggested cc'ing your messages to the fedora list (which I
see you've done). You've moved beyond my skill level with this one. :)
$ rm -rf /home/jim/Desktop/Trash/.directory
Paul.
