Trash not emptying on kubuntu !

This bug is also reported on KDE Bug Tracking System : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116371

I see in the KDE bug that the bug "looks" fixed. I'll close this then. If it no longer look that way for some reason, please feel free to reopen it :)

Yes,

This bug is fixed !

You can close it ;-)

hardouin

 status FixReleased

Was this JUST fixed? Because I ran into this problem yesterday.

Guess not, according to the KDE bug report it's been fixed for a while. But sounds like the same problem:

I was running low on disk space, so I was cleaning up some files. I already did that about a week ago, but it turned out I freed up very little space. Turned out several folders were still in ~/.local/Trash/file, I had to run sudo rm -rf to delete them. Without sudo, they wouldn't get deleted so I guess for some reason I wasn't the owner. I am pretty sure I didn't get any error messages when trashing them in the first place or emptying the trash.

Happened again. Trash said it was empty, but there was a bunch of stuff in ~/.local/Trash/files. Deleting the files with konqueror puts them right back, and makes the trash can full. Emptying it has no effect on the files.

same bug!!

even if trash icon says empty, my ~/.local/share/trash contains 2.2go of folders and files....

kubuntu 6.06 up to date
Kernel K7
hda2=kubuntu
hda1=ntfs
hdb1=fat32

Quote:
"Happened again. Trash said it was empty, but there was a bunch of stuff in ~/.local/Trash/files. Deleting the files with konqueror puts them right back, and makes the trash can full. Emptying it has no effect on the files."

To permenately delete a file, select it and then press shift-delete. Instead of making sure you want to move it to the trash, it asks if you would like to delete it.

can you run:

ls -la ~/.local/share/Trash/files

and either paste the result, or tell us what the permissions on those files and directories are?

ie, it should look something like:
-rw------- 1 sarah sarah 160 2006-09-03 20:55 away.log

Sorry, I'm very impatient indeed. I always waited ~45 seconds with no progress, but it seems after about 2 minutes the dialog dissapears and it sends the file to the trash directory at which point it turns into bug 60167. Sorry to waste time.

To answer the permissions question, the permissions seem normal:
-rw-r--r-- 1 sumguy231 sumguy231 2 2006-09-13 15:27 test.txt
I also noticed: for me, if I leave the dialog for a while, the trash eventually does empty, but the dialog never progresses or closes. The hang when sending to the trash happens only half the time. When this happens, the trash apepars full but hangs on emptying. The other time, the progress dialog doesn't appear or hang and the file gets sent to the trash directory, but the icon and count remains at empty and the emptying progress dialog hangs. Both times, I have the hang in emptying that the first post describes. Sorry if the description isn't very clear.

Hmm, Interesting story about that. After a reboot yesterday, (accompanied by a kernel patch and KOffice update, though that probably didn't have anything to do with it) it suddenly works fine again. I'll see if it comes back, but nothing so far.

Good afternoon,

I noticed the last update is 2006-09 and I am wondering if this bug has come back or not? Please update the bug so we can close it or continue working on it.

Thanks,
Jonathan

Sorry, I didn't know any follow-up was wanted on this bug. No, it still hasn't come back luckily. Feel free to close it.

Well, I am geting the same problem with the trash not emptying. I emptied by kdesu konqueror and emptying from the home screen trash can.

This is on latest Feisty Fawn Kubuntu live cd download, fresh install, with all latest upgrades as shown by Adept and synaptic.

I am a newbie to linux, so have not posted anymore details...just ask if you need me to do / supply you with further info

I have the SAME issue.
Is there a fix for this?
PLEASE help.

Me too. I emptied the trash can and I've run out of disk space.
It should have release about 10GB.

The workaround is to rm all the files in ~/.local/share/Trash/ from the command line.

Has anyone been able to reproduce this bug in gutsy? I am able to empty my trash without any problems.

Thanks,

Jonathan

I had this issue with kubuntu feisty. I deleted some files (put them in the trash) and then i tried to flush the trash can. It wouldn't flush or delete any files. This was because i had put a directory with a svn tree in it, where i compiled a program with root rights. So, because of some files with higher rights, flushing was impossible. I did not try it with gutsy yet.

Still seeing this in Gutsy.

I'm seeing this problem with Gutsy.

Progress dialogue not doing anything so I have to delete the trash from the command line. Don't think there's any issues with differing privileges.

I am not having any problems on either my gutsy or hardy version with empty the trash. can I get a status update?

I note that the thread for #60167 questions whether that bug is indeed a dupe of this bug.

On 02/04/2008, Bug Watch Updater <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: kdebase
> Status: Unknown => Fix Released

So that means that bug #60167 is also fixed, right?

Has someone actually tested that to make sure that it's true, or is it
an untested assumption?

I think I am having the same issue with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I noticed my root disk usage doubled in size and when i found the .local/trash folder full of garbage, I searched and found this post. It might just be a coincident, but I had just started using gksudo to launch a nautilis file browser with root privilegdes so I could move songs files into the pydance folder under /usr/share/games/... before I noticed this problem. It may just be I wasn't placing or deleting any files into the root until then.

Once I realized that crowding my root with all those song files was a bad idea, I tried to add a PATH to my /home/bin and then moved all the files there and then deleted them off the root. The disk space didn't decrease until I went back and shift-deleted the contents in the /root/.local/trash

Hope this helps, I am a complete newb, so I am just pushing keys here

the upstream has marked this as fixed, so I"m marking this as fixed

I'm still seeing this error in gutsy and hardy.

kio_trash author here.
Anyone still having this bug in hardy, please give as many details as possible.
Is ~/.local/share/Trash/info empty? (Most descriptions says it is, but let's start from there). If not, who owns the files?
Who owns the leftover files and directories in ~/.local/share/Trash/files? For directories, anything inside that is not owned by the current user? It's impossible to delete a root-owned directory that contains root-owned files, that's part of the issue.

If this is not about root-owned files or directories, then I'm suspecting a bug in kio_trash when used from two windows at the same time, possibly.

The best place to answer would be in the new KDE bug report http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167051 btw.

I'm still seeing this error in hardy. Here's is what I do to empty the trashcan.
I find something to delete and then I'm able to empty the trash.
I also manually remove the /.local/share/Trash manually from time to time.

Not a problem with the KDE meta package.

Don't know if this helps, but the problem for me seems to be restricted to the Dolphin file manager.
I can shift + del files, but when I try to move them to trash I get the following:

     "Could not write to file ~/.local/share/Trash/info/filename.trashinfo."

Or:

     "The trash has reached its maximum size! Cleanup the trash manually."

However, using the Thunar file manager, there seems to be no problem with moving the files to trash and then emptying trash.

Another note of interest is that the trash bin has disappeared from my desktop panel/folder and trying to add the directory manually gives the following:

     "A folder named ~/.local/share/Trash already exists."

If this is true, why is it not showing?

BTW this bug also occurred for me while deleting from a full HDD.

GodXera: your bug is a bit different. The report here was about "empty trash" not emptying it, while you are getting actual error messages.

What's the problem with ~/.local/share/Trash/info/ ? Can you go into this directory? Does it belong to your user? Can you manually create a "filename.trashinfo" in that directory (and then delete it to avoid confusing kio_trash)?

It would be useful for me to see the output of this command:
  cd ~/.local/share/Trash
  ls -lR > /tmp/trash.txt
(and then send me the file /tmp/trash.txt)

This should probably be reported on KDE bugzilla, especially since it's unrelated to the rest of this report.

GodXera: i recently(just now) had the same problem with my new kubuntu 11.10 installation.
When trying to delete an item I got the message:

     "The trash has reached its maximum size! Cleanup the trash manually."

and after deleting the folders

                                             ~/.local/share/Trash/
and
                                             ~/.local/share/Trash/info

I ended up with the error message:

     "Could not write to file ~/.local/share/Trash/info/filename.trashinfo."

After I have read your post I tried using Thunar too and that worked.

By accident I discovered that when you open the trash with Konqueror and rightclick where the deleted items normally would be you get access to a menu "Configure Trash Bin".
There I changed some settings and afterwards I was able to delete files with Dolphin and Konqueror again.

@MicroPor:

You shouldn't need to delete entire ~/.local/share/Trash, but only ~/.local/share/Trash/metadata file.

But in can you already deleted ~/.local/share/Trash, you can make it work again by Dolphin > Settings > Trash > tweak the setting and back again so you can click OK. Now Trash should work again.

See KDE bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245482