When clicking on Nautilus, it opens a new icon with a question mark

[krishnan sampath]

The file manager does not open on single click. However, it does open on middle click or when I use the quicklists. Moreover, when I try to open home, a new addition is made to the launcher and the icon contains a question mark. In essence, the Nautilius icon is not highlighted even when the application is open.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-0.7-generic 3.10.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-0-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 26 08:31:35 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'512x716+513+24'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-21 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130101)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Craig Hrabal (crhrabal)]

I also have the same results. When clicking the "Files" icon in the launcher, it opens another instance with a question mark. If "Files" is selected from the dash, it will also open another instance with a question mark.

When attempting to lock the new instance with the question mark to my launcher, when clicking on the question mark it blinks, but "Files" never opens.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

When this happens *may* be worth seeing what .desktop is associated with the ? icon. That can be done by temp locking it to the launcher & looking at com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites in dconf-editor
On some occasions it's been nautilus-autostart.desktop, others just nautilus.desktop

The later can be caused by an improper nautilus .desktop in ~/.local/share/applications, the former no clue why

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

krishnan, could you edit this report so it fits the attached template.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]