ROS – Solving the annoying “Permission denied” on “gvfs” when error while crawling packages

When you want to start a node under ROS it is common to perform the following operations:

• Open a terminal
• Run
  
  Shell

  roscore

  1

  roscore

• Open another terminal
• Start writing …
  
  Shell

  rosrun ros-indigo-

  1	rosrun ros-indigo-

•  … and now press “Tab” to crawl all the possible packages

This is the moment when you get the annoying error about “permission denied” accessing to “/home/user/.gvfs”, as shown in the following picture

Error accessing gvfs

The solution is really simple:

• Open a new terminal with “Ctrl+Alt+t”
• Enter the following commands:
  
  Shell

  $ sudo umount /home/useraccount/.gvfs $ sudo rm -rf .gvfs/

  1 2	$ sudo umount /home/useraccount/.gvfs $ sudo rm -rf .gvfs/

  
  replacing “useraccount” with your account name (i.e. ubuntu for the default Jetson TK1 installation)