"The folder could not be created" when trying to open folder.

[PrototypeX29A]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

1) Ubuntu 9.10
2) rhythmbox: Installed: 0.12.5-0ubuntu5

I made a new playlist and hit import folder (ctrl-o), navigated to some folder containing music and hit the "open"-button,.
3) I expected to happen: The files in the older are added to the playlist.
4) This did happen: I get an error message "The folder could not be created" "Error creating file: file exists"

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

I also noticed this problem when I open the same folder by clicking on it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/164586

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better, however the report is missing some information, may you please run rhythmbox as: rhythmbox --debug &> rhythmbox-debug.txt ; perform the steps to reproduce the bug and attach that resulting log file to the report? Thanks in advance!.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

Today I failed to reproduce the bug. It seems that there are other conditions which have to be met for the bug to occur.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

The same thing in VLC, maybe yet another bug in GTK.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

It seems it takes to take more to reproduce the bug, but this works, atm, for rythmbox and VLC:

a.) open a single file from a directory
b.) choose "Import Folder" (rhythmbox) or "Open Directory" (vlc) and navigate to the parent directory of the currently chosen dir.
c.) click "Open"

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

VLC works fine here... You must be omitting something.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

I don't imagine that stuff. The steps to reproduce the bug, given at 2010-01-10, still will reliably produce the error.
Are you doing exactly the same routine? Are you using "Open File" and then "Open Directory" via the "Meda" menu?
Do you change to the parent directory? Are you clicking the "Open" Button?
I will try to reproduce it on another machine, if I get hands on one.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Yes. Works fine.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

So which information is actually missing?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

I don't know. Sounds like a UI toolkit problem. Can you reproduce it when running VLC outside of GNOME, e.g. from a plain xterm (Fail safe mode) or with another desktop environment?

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

I tried it with wmii and xterm, and I cannot reproduce the behaviour in VLC. (Using Gnome when it occurs). However with Rhythmbox it is possible with all three window managers.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Not a VLC bug. From the last comment, I would guess it's a bug in GTK or the GTK dialog plugins for Qt.

[PrototypeX29A (preineke)]

I think it is gone in lucid

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!