Strange behaviour when trying to empty Trash in Nautilus, and it fails
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GTK+ |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu GNOME |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ever since Nautilus had that little thing in the top bar indicating how long it would take to copy or delete something, Nautilus has always behaved strangely, normally showing "Preparing" for the entirety of the time and then magically disappearing when it is done and flashing the icon several times. But the most strange thing of all just happened, and is still affecting me.
I moved a very large folder with many sub-folders and file into Trash, Nautilus reports the following for the properties of the folder "203,334 items, totalling 1.7 GB". So once I had done this I clicked the button to "Empty" the Trash, normally with large items such as this one and the new Nautilus system of indication it takes a while and doesn't appear to do much. But this time it right out failed, it just won't let me delete the folder, though when I copied other things into the Trash as well as this folder it deleted them, just left this folder seemingly.
And then this happened, the indicator became a separate window, and when I closed it, so did Nautilus. But this is what it looked like:
Nautilus_
Nautilus_
This is the strangest thing so far that has happened with this, and yes, when clicking the close, minimize, and maximize buttons on this new "window", they did do what they do on any window.
This really is bizarre for it to become a separate window. I looked in my syslog and these were the Nautilus logs for that time period:
Aug 5 11:40:05 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
Aug 5 11:40:05 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
Aug 5 11:47:24 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
Aug 5 11:50:07 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
Aug 5 11:51:16 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
Aug 5 11:51:20 <Computer-Name> org.gnome.
And I still haven't been able to delete the folder.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.20.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Aug 5 12:02:49 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-15 (81 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: upgrade-software-version removed: needs-packaging |
summary: |
- [needs-packaging] Strange behaviour when trying to empty Trash in - Nautilus, and it fails + Strange behaviour when trying to empty Trash in Nautilus, and it fails |
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → High |
This bug has already been fixed upstream and a patch released. This should now be backported in.