PCManFM has gone feral. (Solved)

[BJF]

Updated my NX9005 laptop last night and received lots of nice things from Synaptic, but some issues too. Most were self-evident configuration matters but one remains to perplex.
PCManFM has some screens ordered as requested in descending name order but others are in a random order as though tied to other criteria, and applying View>Sort> doesn't change that. I've explored all the controls I can find that pertain, and reinstalled PCManFM from Synaptic. No change.
As this aberration only began with the update I can believe there is a tie-up with the new LXDE features, but makes folder-finding especially in /etc a bit of a mission. Is there a kindly grown-up out there that can point me at a fix please?

Thanks.  

(edit) The man's a fool! After posting the above, I went back to PCMan and ran through the range of View options again, culminating with >Sort (by name)>Ascending, and lo, problem solved. All fixed. Sorry to have wasted your time with this. What some people will do to notch up posts, eh? 

[marcin82]

Had the same problem ... Don't remember, which one of these files:

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[marcin@localhost ~]$ locate pcmanfm.conf
/etc/skel/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf
/etc/xdg/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf
/etc/xdg/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf.7HFSZV
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf.O7VTYV
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf.O9S3YV
/home/marcin/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf.OZUQTV
/usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.confkeeps these settings ... ;] After restart pcmanf 'service' all was ok. I've killed the process in Task Manager, then restart it (Alt+F2) and:

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pcmanfm --desktop

[Neal ManBear]

Sort files > by file type will restore to non-scrambled order.

[drcr]

At the same time as the problem appeared that was reported and solved under this topic, I got another problem with pcmanfm. When I go to tools and click the second choice to switch the page to root control I get:
'Failed to execute child process "xdg-su" (No such file or directory)" which means I can't edit a file that needs root privileges. (This stymies one of the real niceties of LXDE.)

[Neal ManBear]

At the same time as the problem appeared that was reported and solved under this topic, I got another problem with pcmanfm. When I go to tools and click the second choice to switch the page to root control I get:
'Failed to execute child process "xdg-su" (No such file or directory)" which means I can't edit a file that needs root privileges. (This stymies one of the real niceties of LXDE.)

PCManFM > Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab --- change xdg-su -c '%s' to gksu %s.

[BJF]

 
Found and fixed that one before my first post, and was feeling good about my clever-level. Then couldn't get the folders and files in order and went all pouty. Sometimes it's the simple stuff that gets ya. Forum to the rescue!
And Neal: Thanks again for all your input to the cause.

[BJF]

By way of adding detail to the problem of PCManFM and fixing the ordering upset on update, I just updated the install on my EeePC and whilst correcting the little oddities it brought discovered that the following worked for me to correct the display in PCMan:

Open PCManFM
Up-Arrow back to /
Click View>Sort Files> and choose By File Type.
Click >By Name.
Close PCManFM

-My files rearranged themselves into ascending alphabetical order as I'd requested without the faff I'd got involved in with my laptop.

Good luck.