root refused access

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MartinR
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root refused access

Post by MartinR » 2018/03/15 11:42:40

Recently lsof has started to report an error message:

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lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
before completing as normal.

As root, ls -l /run/user/1000 shows:

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drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX  60 Mar 12 17:59 dconf
d?????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? gvfs
drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX 100 Mar 12 17:58 keyring
drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX  80 Mar 12 17:58 pulse
(where XXXXX is the username associated with UID 1000).

As user 1000 I can see:

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drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX  60 Mar 12 17:59 dconf
dr-x------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX   0 Mar 12 17:58 gvfs
drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX 100 Mar 12 17:58 keyring
drwx------. 2 XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX  80 Mar 12 17:58 pulse
getfacl reveals:

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user::r-x
group::---
other::---
SELinux is permissive.

Linux valmiki 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 19:03:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So two questions:
1) Why can't root see the information?
2) Is this empty directory needed?

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