nautilus/bonobo problem after X server restart in feisty

[DaveAbrahams]

After failing to enable desktop-effects, I had to restart my X server. Upon logging in, I got:

Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the factory.Killing bonobo-activation-server and restarting Nautilus may help fix the problem.

[Rapolas K. (casselas)]

The same for me. Just sometimes my xserver crashes for couple times, and then starts with showing this error.

[duffernix (robras)]

I receive the same error in a message box while trying to copy a 4 GB dvd.iso file to a network file (mounted via samba). It happens each time when 2 GB of the file has been copied. I'm running 64 bit Feisty beta with all updates applied

[Dee (dee24)]

I just received this error a few minutes ago when Xserver crashed, leaving no icons on the desktop and causing all my programs to disappear from the taskbar.

[Dee (dee24)]

Man, after Xserver crashed, "Applications" from Start Menu no longer works. "Main menu" from "System" also does not work.
Does not work as in: I click on them and nothing shows up.
When I try to launch "Main menu" also known as Alacarte from Terminal, I receive the error messages as listed below.

Shortly before the Xserver crashed, I was working within Terminal and trying to compile and install the latest version of Gimp. However, I simply ignored it and restarted X, then carried on installing Gimp. Sudo make install, etc., etc. The only packages I'd installed within the last 12 hours were: gimp-print, gimp 2.2.14.

Since then I've also tried reinstalling python2.5 and python-xml and python-lxml

Nothing happened.

Below are the error messages for Alacarte in Terminal:

lucifiel@lucifiel:~$ alacarte

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 46, in __loadMenus
self.applications.dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(self.applications.path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 926, in parse
result = builder.parseFile(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 211, in parseFile
parser.Parse("", True)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
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[Dee (dee24)]

Oops forgot to mention that I'm running Feisty Final(patched from beta to final).

[Dee (dee24)]

All right, I managed to resolve the issue by creating a new user(gave the user full admin permissions) and by doing chown + chmod.

A big thanks goes to the fine folks at #ubuntuforums-beginners for helping me pull through.

According to Shirish, a friend of mine, attaching my ./gnome and ./gnome2 directories might prove useful so here they are in .tar.bz2 format.

[Dee (dee24)]

Commands run on my home/user directories:
sudo chown -Rvf <your_user_name> <dir>

Example: sudo chown -Rvf lily

sudo - chmod 755 -R /home/whatevernameis

Example: sudo - chmod 755 -Rvf /home/chicken

[oskar (oskar669)]

I get the exact same error... also after I had to kill the xserver.
I'm running feisty since herd3, since Yuri Aoki.Hidan.Lucifiel said he also upgraded from beta, maybe that's part of the problem.
I got nautilus crashes on startup before, without this error message. killing/restarting nautilus helps.

[Lars Vopicka (lars+vopicka-deactivatedaccount)]

My problem was the application menu which would not open.
With alacarte i got the above mentioned error as well.

I have found that renaming ~/.config solved both issues.

(I am running edgy on this machine.)

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

may be related to bug #114428