Copy, paste, delete and other are disabled

[Blue112]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Sometime, options copy, paste, delete and others are disabled, when I still have a the read and write permission. I have to close nautilus and to start it again. Ctrl + C or other shortcut doesn't work either when that bug happens.
I think it's releate with sftp feature, but I can't confirm that.

Ubuntu 10.04
Happens in Nautilus 2.30.1

[21M (21m-deactivatedaccount)]

This has been happening to me too occasionally for a pretty long time now. Suddenly, the following commands/submenus become disabled (greyed out), both in Edit and context menus:

 • Cut (Ctrl+X stops working)
 • Copy (Ctrl+C stops working)
 • Paste (Ctrl+V stops working)
 • Select All (Ctrl+A keeps working)
 • Select Items Matching… (Ctrl+S stops working)
 • Invert Selection (Shift+Ctrl+I stops working)
 • Duplicate
 • Make Links (Ctrl+M stops working)
 • Rename… (F2 stops working)
 • Copy to
 • Move to
 • Move to Trash (Del and Delete keep working)
 • Delete (Shift+Del and Shift+Delete stop working)

The above operations which can be done via the mouse, without menus, are still available that way though (e.g. drag & drop, Shift+drag & drop, Ctrl+drag & drop). Keyboard selection also works as usual (e.g. Shift+arrows, Ctrl+arrows, Ctrl+Space).

As far as I can tell, it happens randomly after Nautilus has been open for hours. Restarting Nautilus temporarily gets rid of the issue, which can be a real pain when I'm working with two panes (pun unintended), several tabs, and lots of expanded folders.

Hope this will be fixed soon. Thanks.

[21M (21m-deactivatedaccount)]

Forgot to mention:

 • Ubuntu 10.10
 • Linux 2.6.35-28-generic
 • GNOME 2.32.0
 • Nautilus 2.32.0

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 641177

This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your bug report. Thanks in advance!

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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!

[Thomas Becker (t-becker)]

I'm having the same problem. Adding my debug information now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Becker (t-becker)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Tags: natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-03 (173 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare tape video www-data

[Thomas Becker (t-becker)]

apport information

[Thomas Becker (t-becker)]

apport information

[Thomas Becker (t-becker)]

apport information

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you bug you should open a new bug rather than reopen a closed one