I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a new partition less than a week ago. I have not yet gotten all the basic stuff to work. But now, from time to time, 20.04 pops up a small window saying "Authentication is required to run gvfsd-admin daemon". But even though I enter my Ubuntu password and press it will not go away. Not even if I press the Cancel-button. Which, by the way, is a bit difficult to do, because instead you activate functions in a window BEHIND the authentication-window(!!) The only way of making the screen usable again is to restart Ubuntu... VERY annoying!
I recently installed a GRUB theme from gnome-look.org on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (my PC is Windows 10 dual-boot with Ubuntu). To install the theme successfully, the file at /etc/default/grub needs to be edited.
So I used sudo gedit /etc/default/grub command to do so. After editing when I save it I, see the following warning in Terminal:
(gedit:7169): Tepl-WARNING **: 21:13:18.135: GVfs metadata is not supported. Fallback to TeplMetadataManager. Either GVfs is not correctly installed or GVfs metadata are not supported on this platform. In the latter case, you should configure Tepl with --disable-gvfs-metadata.
Later on I also edited the grub menu by editing the file at /boot/grub/grub.cfg by using sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
Upon saving the file I got a similar warning
(gedit:8887): Tepl-WARNING **: 21:18:46.163: GVfs metadata is not supported. Fallback to TeplMetadataManager. Either GVfs is not correctly installed or GVfs metadata are not supported on this platform. In the latter case, you should configure Tepl with --disable-gvfs-metadata.
Can someone tell me the reason? And also how to deal with it?
I saw in a reddit comment that it was possible to switch to root user in nautilus file browser by just typing in a series of forward slashes and colons. I've since forgotten the sequence and searching the internet did not return any answers.
Is there an actual way to do that?
For a little while now, a strange connection has been showing up on my netstat made by the command:
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.1 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
By the time I notice it, the connection is always at the closed state. Every time I trace the IP address, it usually says that no website is registered.
I am unsure what activated this. It could be one of my browsers (Chrome and Firefox). I'm getting a little worried about this.
Could someone clue me in to what this could possibly be, and how to prevent the connection.
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The Places side pane in Nautilus has some kind of eject icon:
What do all of these do?
Specifics I've been wondering about include:
- What happens when a drive has multiple partitions mounted?
- Under what conditions is a prompt to empty the trash displayed?
- Do any of these result in a state in which the drive cannot be mounted again without first being physically reconnected?