No icons (files and launchers) on Desktop , no pop-up menu on right click

[Stevo Vukovic]

Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 up-to date

After lasts updates icons (files and launchers) has disappeared and mouse right click wont work on desktop. Files and launchers exists in desktop folder and right click works in all other programs.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you please post the output of "ps aux | grep nautilus". Also, please attach your ~/.xsession-errors.

Thanks

[Stevo Vukovic (stevovukovic)]

stevo@karmic:~$ ps aux | grep nautilus
stevo    12630  0.0  0.0   3160   808 pts/0    S+   20:38   0:00 grep nautilus

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Chris Coulson <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Chris Coulson <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 392911] Re: No icons (files and launchers) on Desktop , no pop-up menu on right click
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 11:01 AM

Thank you for your bug report. Could you please post the output of "ps
aux | grep nautilus". Also, please attach your ~/.xsession-errors.

Thanks

** Package changed: ubuntu => nautilus (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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No icons (files and launchers) on Desktop , no pop-up menu on right click
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Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 up-to date

After lasts updates icons (files and launchers) has disappeared and mouse right click wont work on desktop. Files and launchers exists in desktop folder and right click works in all other programs.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Nautilus isn't running with your default session then. What happens if you run "nautilus" from the terminal?

[Shang Wu (shangwu)]

In my case, it gives me the following output:

nautilus

(nautilus:18791): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

** (nautilus:18791): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:18791): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:18791): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.1
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

(nautilus:18791): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_instance_get_private: assertion `instance != NULL && instance->g_class != NULL' failed

** (nautilus:18791): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_begin_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

[Shang Wu (shangwu)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[toomaspihl (toomaspihl)]

i have the same problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[esenoy (esenoy)]

Same here, no problem until the last kernel update.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with kernel "2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux"

Nautilus can't run, and I have no icons or launchers on my desktop.

That's the output when I try to run nautilus the terminal:

Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.1
Initializing nautilus-clamscan extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

** (nautilus:2920): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:2920): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:2920): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
Sense key: 0x70 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x08 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Fallo de segmentación

[Jonathan Gossage (jgossage)]

The biggest item that can help this bug along is a backtrace at the point of the crash. This can be obtained following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and uploading the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Other information that can help - this applies to all who have experienced this problem.

1. Please attach all your /var/log/dpkg.log* log files to this bug report.
2. Please indicate whether you experienced this problem after a clean install of the release version of 9.10, or were you upgrading from 9.04 or from an early development version of 9.10

[Giulio Malventi (giulio-people)]

Experienced after upgrading from 9.04.

[Giulio Malventi (giulio-people)]

Hope I have done well.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks, but the backtrace is missing most debug symbols. Please try to obtain a new backtrace with the following packages installed:

libgdu0-dbgsym gnome-disk-utility-dbgsym libglib2.0-0-dbg libgtk2.0-0-dbg

Thanks

[Giulio Malventi (giulio-people)]

I noticed that strangely the desktop icons will appear again if I open the trash through the panel applet.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in lucid?

[Hamed Abdy (hamed-abdy)]

Same issue in Oneiric Ocelot.
In Oneiric when you middle click on a folder in desktop, nautilus crashes. So there are no icons on desktop, no right click menu, ....
But it resolves by running nautilus from the launcher (dash).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.