Nautilus fails to use gvfs backends when used over ssh

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Latest update of 11.10. I launch a Nautilus window. I click on Trash in the left panel. A popup tells me "The folder contents could not be displayed." "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported"

What should happen... is that Trash, empty or full, should be displayed. Or a more meaningful error should be given if something's wrong.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 12 08:53:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
* Could you add your .xsession-errors to the bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you run nautilus with your user or another one?

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

(Delay in response: this clean installation of 11.10 with no exotic installs melted down, so that I could only log in on tty! I have just reinstalled 11.10 from scratch, clean. The bug reported here recurred.)

Ah, yes, there's a key caveat. Logged in locally, nautilus behaves okay. I mostly log in remotely from a machine (both with Internet addresses) right next to it. When logged in over ssh -X, nautilus comes up fine but fails when asked to show Trash or Computer.

In fact, once I have launched nautilus locally ONCE, it seems to work okay remotely, too. So that means to reproduce this I might need to reinstall. Weird. But still a problem for servers which may never get a local login.

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

[Please ignore post above.] The 3rd paragraph is wrong. The first two are correct:

(Delay in response: this clean installation of 11.10 with no exotic installs melted down, so that I could only log in on tty! I have just reinstalled 11.10 from scratch, clean. The bug reported here recurred.)

Ah, yes, there's a key caveat. Logged in locally, nautilus behaves okay. I mostly log in remotely from a machine (both with Internet addresses) right next to it. When logged in over ssh -X, nautilus comes up fine but fails when asked to show Trash or Computer.

[soumajit (soumajitpal)]

When I click the Browse Network it shows Nautilus cannot handle "network" locations . I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and apart from this pen drives not being detected. It does not mount.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not really a bug then, it seems that nautilus just fails to use dbus when ran over ssh, does running "dbus-launch nautilus" makes a difference there?

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

By the way, after intervening updates, it seems the problem doesn't occur any more as originally described. Now when I try to launch nautilus:

$ nautilus
Could not register the application: Error connecting: Connection refused

and if instead I try

$dbus-launch nautilus
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8
** (nautilus:15129): DEBUG: Syncdaemon not running, waiting for it to start in NameOwnerChanged
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
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.

it comes up fine and I can view Trash etc normally. I guess I'll have to look up what "dbus" is... It seems bad that I have to behave differently if I'm not logged in locally, ie whatever happened to X transparency?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You can get some details about your issue on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484171 for example

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

using nautilus over ssh is not a supported usecase