Nautilus crash makes desktop icons and right-click vanish until restart
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Nautilus crashed on me recently and later I noticed all icons disappeared from the gnome desktop, (current ubuntu hardy with all updates to this date). In addition right-clicking on the desktop wouldn't work (and similar things like rubber-band selecting icons (which weren't displayed in any case)). After a reboot, removing any tmp files, full shutdown and reboot, and restarting and trying everything else I could think of, if I started nautilus from a gnome-terminal, and shut it down again properly and my icons, right-click abilities, etc. returned. I'm unable to duplicate this (how do I force nautilus to crash poorly to begin with? I don't remember what I was doing!) I post this bug in case it is useful to pass upstream and as a record in case anyone else encounters the same problem. The clue to restart nautilus was given by this old fedora post: http://
Bug exists but is non-critical, but impacts ability for inexperienced user to use the gnome UI. I'm not entirely sure the nautilus is the source of the bug, but restarting it cured the symptoms. It might be a GDM bug. Sorry that this isn't very helpful.
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in nautilus: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Tallyho (paalh) wrote | #2 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.
If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.
If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.