file-roller can't extract a compressed file as normal user

[Miguelángel León]

As normal (administrator) user file-roller cannot extract files, it complains with a message box saying (translated from spanish) Owner can't be stablished: Operation not allowed.

I can extract as superuser, nevertheless, changing the owner using nautilus as superuser crashes nautilus. Once, nautilus said the user logged in didn't exist, I couldn't reproduce this last message anymore. using cat /etc/passwd shows the user with a correct ID.

I cannot be sure if the problem is about file-roller or is a user administration problem

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: file-roller 3.10.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 8 22:11:32 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-04 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131004)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_VE:es
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=es_VE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that works here, could you give some details on your configuration:

- is the partition a local one? what filesystem is it using?

- what format do you try to unpack?

- do you have write rights in the directory where you try to unpack?

[Miguelángel León (migueleonm)]

I tried to reproduce the bug with other files created by me with no success, tried with zips and tars. The problem only happens with two tar.gz downloaded files which my user owns. The folder is owned by my user too with the proper write rights, nevertheless, my tests indicate that is hard to reproduce and maybe is an isolated case.

Is a local ext4 partition.

Thank you for your time reading the bug report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, could you share any of the buggy examples?

[Miguelángel León (migueleonm)]

this file in particular http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz, I downloaded the file many times with the same result. As I noted before, it can be extracted with superuser powers with no problem.

[Sergey Amitonov (sam-msu)]

I try to extract bz2 file in Nautilus and get the same message. Evrithing works with tar -xjvf in Terminal