All icons appears as a simple retangle in the Nautilus

[rdemarco]

All my folders and files appears as generic blank rectangle icons in nautilus

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 2 08:37:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (45 days ago)
XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1671): Gdk-WARNING **: The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking time in filing the bug to make ubuntu better.

please attach a screenshot of the bug?
can you explain how this happen? like you just install ubuntu and than it happen ?

[Rafael Vieira Morais (rvmorais)]

Here is a screenshot from Oneric Ocelot [http://s10.postimage.org/oxhakzua1/Screenshot_at_2011_12_20_08_28_17.png]

[Rafael Vieira Morais (rvmorais)]

It seems to work fine when I first start the PC, but after opening 'Home Folder' for the second or third time it shows only these rectangles. When browsing something from Chromium or another program it works fine. The photos are shown as you can see here [http://s8.postimage.org/4qu34lkrp/Screenshot_at_2011_12_20_08_28_10.png], but icons are just rectangles.

[Rafael Vieira Morais (rvmorais)]

I also do works fine in Guest sessions: http://s12.postimage.org/ic9mickrh/Screenshot_at_2011_12_20_09_10_39.png

[Rafael Vieira Morais (rvmorais)]

Well, yesterday I let the computer hibernating for about two hours, the I came back and turned it on. After doing a few things, like saving documents, I was tired I wished to shut the PC down, but I would try and it would only restart, then I turned it of by force, pressing the computer button for some time. After that, this morning, the icons came back! Well, for the moment it seems fixed.

[rdemarco (rdemarco77)]

Rafael,
 in case the problem occurs again try to use the command:
"killall nautilus"

[Rafael Vieira Morais (rvmorais)]

Thanks!

[Jérémie Bouttier (bouttier+launchpad)]

I believe that I am affected by the same bug (on a fresh install of 11.10 with Unity).

Symptom : instead of the standard theme (as in the screenshot of comment #5), Nautilus displays a blank theme (as in the screenshot of comment #3).

I could not reproduce the bug in a deterministic manner. When I observe it, it is typically right after I boot my system and I open Nautilus e.g. by clicking on the Home Folder button in the launcher. The bug may then disappear (or not) on the next boot (a "killall nautilus" as suggested in comment #7 also seems to make the bug disappear). I observed the bug perhaps 5 times over the last 25 boots since I first observed it in December.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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