Hello, I am trying to delete a "doc" folder on my computer but have been unable to do so.How do I delete it? Some output below should give an indication of what I have tried. peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ ls -l ls: cannot access 'doc': Permission denied total 236 drw------- 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 23:32 dconf d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc drw-r--r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 flatpak drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 12288 Jan 2 10:53 fontconfig drw-rw-r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 8 21:23 gstreamer-1.0 drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 mate drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 21:25 matplotlib drw-r--r-- 7 peter peter 4096 Jan 17 16:59 mesa_shader_cache drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:02 mintinstall drw------- 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 obexd drw------- 4 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 00:33 pip -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 165196 Jan 3 08:52 qt_compose_cache_little_endian_fede3597f8724a62b7726a319d60a6bc drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 22:08 qtshadercache drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:54 thumbnails drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:08 thunderbird drwxrwxr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:12 wine drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 00:40 xreader drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 7 22:09 yelp peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l total 236 drw------- 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 23:32 dconf dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 doc drw-r--r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 flatpak drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 12288 Jan 2 10:53 fontconfig drw-rw-r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 8 21:23 gstreamer-1.0 drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 mate drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 21:25 matplotlib drw-r--r-- 7 peter peter 4096 Jan 17 16:59 mesa_shader_cache drw-rw-r-- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:02 mintinstall drw------- 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:53 obexd drw------- 4 peter peter 4096 Jan 1 00:33 pip -rw-rw-r-- 1 peter peter 165196 Jan 3 08:52 qt_compose_cache_little_endian_fede3597f8724a62b7726a319d60a6bc drw-r--r-- 2 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 22:08 qtshadercache drw------- 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 18:54 thumbnails drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:08 thunderbird drwxrwxr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Dec 31 20:12 wine drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 2 00:40 xreader drwx------ 3 peter peter 4096 Jan 7 22:09 yelp peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l doc total 0 dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 by-app peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l doc/by-app total 0 peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rm doc rm: cannot remove 'doc': Is a directory peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rm -r doc rm: cannot remove 'doc/by-app': Function not implemented peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir doc rmdir: failed to remove 'doc': Device or resource busy peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ lsof -N lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse file system /home/peter/.cache/doc Output information may be incomplete. peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir -p doc [sudo] password for peter: rmdir: failed to remove 'doc': Device or resource busy peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ man rmdir peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rmdir -p doc/by-app rmdir: failed to remove 'doc/by-app': Function not implemented peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$
Peter Wolf via luv-beginners wrote:
I am trying to delete a "doc" folder on my computer but have been unable to do so.How do I delete it?
Some output below should give an indication of what I have tried.
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ ls -l ls: cannot access 'doc': Permission denied total 236 drw------- 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 23:32 dconf d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc
This is pretty suspicious.
peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo ls -l doc total 0 dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 by-app peter@FLYQB8M9RETO9JA05LY0A3QPQB6OXGXZ0QOC0QN9:~/.cache$ sudo rm -r doc rm: cannot remove 'doc/by-app': Function not implemented
This is the smoking gun. It looks like ~/.cache/doc is some kind of fuse filesystem, and the driver is a bit stupid. OK two things: 1. do not run GUI apps as root. You have done so in the past, which is why things like ~peter/.cache/dconf are now owned by root. This breaks all kinds of things. 1a. To fix this you might try something like sudo find ~peter -xdev '(' -owner root -o -group root ')' -ls sudo find ~peter -xdev '(' -owner root -o -group root ')' -exec echo chown -h peter:peter {} + If the output looks sensible, run it without the "echo" to actually apply it. 2. re your ~/.cache/doc tree, I guess run "mount" or "cat /proc/self/mountinfo" and try to work out WTF it is. Depending what it is, you might umount it, or fix the fuse driver, or just uninstall/disable it. You might need to do a full reboot to clear it, if it's super buggy.
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