'paste' greyed out in nautilus right-click even when usable

[Jack Leigh]

Open nautilus
Right-click on file
Select 'Cut' or 'Copy'
Right-click in empty space

Paste is greyed out but still usable
Screenshot attached

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 7 21:23:33 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '640x747+66+24'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state maximized true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-04 (2 days ago)

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Fail. Can't reproduce after restarting nautilus.
First appeared when working on a FAT pendrive but persisted in /home folder

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 882307, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jan Lillelund (jan-lillelund)]

Restarting Nautilus fixes the problem.

I don't know if it helps any, but I encounter it more often when there are many tabs open and I peceive it as happening more on a mounted SMB share than a local disk, but that may also just be due to my work pattern. It could be related to some timeout issue, as the SMB server spins the drives down and thus occasionally takes a while to respond.

[Jan Lillelund (jan-lillelund)]

I missed the pointer to bug #882307. I do not think the duplicate status is wrong. Apologies.