Sidebar: Other Locations fails to open

[Doug McMahon]

Fresh daily image from today, also seen on recent install, updated.

Open nautilus, click on Other Locations
Nothing happens

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.20.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.378
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 7 19:13:51 2016
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'890x550+65+24'"
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160907)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1621215

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that works fine here so might depends on timing or devices ... does it work in the gtk fileselector (e.g in gedit -> open) or does it do the same?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Sebastian, I'm not the original reporter of the bug but I'm also seeing this problem in a live session of Ubuntu GNOME and my Ubuntu install.

Yes, I do see this issue in the gtk fileselector, gedit and LibreOffice are just two of the applications affected. So marking this bug as "Confirmed".

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Yeah - any app that uses the open file dialog showing Other Location also fails to open it.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

So obviously not a nautilus bug. Maybe? glib as downgrading glib to 2.49.5-1 allows the Other Location to work in all uses.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm reassigning this from (nautilus and glib2.0) to (gtk+3.0 and glib2.0) because upgrading gtk+3.0 to 3.21.5 also fixes this and downgrading back to yakkety's gtk+3.0 brings the bug back.

Therefore, I believe this bug can be fixed in either GTK or glib.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I get this error on the command line when I click "Other Locations":

sys:1: Warning: g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID: assertion 'n_param_values == 1' failed

A no-change rebuild of gtk+3.0 in my PPA didn't help.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769076#c13

The fix in gtk for the glib change is https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=0c1cc9

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+3.0 - 3.20.9-1ubuntu2

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gtk+3.0 (3.20.9-1ubuntu2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Add 0002-Fix-other-locations-with-glib-249.patch and
    0003-use-null-for-generic-marshallers.patch:
    - Backport patches from 3.22 to fix "Other Locations" link in
      file browser sidebar with glib 2.49.6 (LP: #1621215)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Sep 2016 04:24:36 -0400