'new document' option missing on right click

[corrado venturini]

right click on window of a folder does not show 'new document' also if /home/templates is populated. .config/user-dirs.dirs does not exist.
also other files/folders are missing in /home.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.24.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 27 11:44:10 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-18 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170717)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Please, could you report the permission you have in the mounted partition?

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

the mounted partition is 'dati1' but my description of the problem was wrong: the problem is DIFFERENT: right click does NOT work at all, also on local parts.

corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:/media/corrado$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 4096 lug 27 14:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 lug 18 11:09 ..
drwx------ 41 corrado corrado 4096 lug 26 21:31 dati1
drwx------ 13 corrado corrado 4096 lug 17 18:04 dati9
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 lug 12 18:40 p4-hp-aa-0710
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:/media/corrado$

also if home is populated:

corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$ ls -l
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 22 10:18 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 27 12:46 Documents
drwx------ 3 corrado corrado 4096 lug 27 12:45 Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 corrado corrado 8980 lug 18 10:49 examples.desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 3 12:14 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 26 17:29 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 3 12:14 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 15 09:48 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 corrado corrado 4096 lug 3 12:14 Videos
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$

home subfolders are not recognized:

corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
cat: /home/corrado/.config/user-dirs.dirs: No such file or directory
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$

problem may be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1703743

in the screenshot You may see the images from 2 different installations on same PC, right click works on the install from the daily dated 20170710 (not upgraded) but does not work in the one from daily 20170717 with all today updates.

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is correctly filled on the install from the daily dated 20170710.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Notes:
- the home directory from daily 20170717 was empty after installation, I have copied the subfolders from the other install.
- I have the same problem on another install from the daily dated 20170725

[Carlo Lobrano (c-lobrano)]

Could you update problem description so that it reflects the right issue?

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

same problem also installing from the daily dated 20170731.
let me know if i can send some other data (syslog, installer syslog ...)
I have installed from daily dated 20170731 and than nothing done to have a clean situation.

this is the home folder as installed from ISO Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170725)

corrado@corrado-HP-aa-0725:~$ ls -a
. .bashrc examples.desktop .mozilla
.. .cache .gnupg .profile
.bash_history .config .ICEauthority .ssh
.bash_logout Desktop .local .sudo_as_admin_successful
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-0725:~$ ls .config -a
. dconf eog gedit gnome-session gtk-3.0 nautilus
.. enchant evolution gnome-games goa-1.0 ibus pulse
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-0725:~$

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

solved by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1708569