Text Menus not displaying - org.gtk.vfs.Daemon

[Peter Anderson]

I installed standard Ubuntu 14.04 LTS about a 3 weeks ago and everything has been working fine. After a fortnight of all working fine I installed Wine via the standard package manager and then installed a simple windows exe WBridge5 (using wine) and then ran it a couple of times using wine and all was fine. Note that this may be irrelevant.

In the morning when I started my DELL Inspiron 6400 and after entering my password the standard desktop appeared without my previously set background; the file mgr appears automatically (without the recent files icon) and the following message appears:

    "Oops something went wrong. Unhandled error message: The name org.gtk.vfs.Daemon was not provided by any .Service files."

After acknowledging the message, my programs operate but WITHOUT a text menu showing on the top menu bar. There are other minor inconveniences such as Alt+Tab doesn't work and there is no "Recent" option on the Files program and "System Settings Appearance" cannot be changed. The show stopper for me is that unless a program has a non text menu method of running a menu option, you are stuffed. This affects Libreoffice really badly.

I have tried all sorts of things and most of these have been logged on askubuntu where there is more information. See :
http://askubuntu.com/questions/736528/ubuntu-desktop-problem-org-gtk-vfs-daemon-error

Please help!!!!!!

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+filebug/7117814e-da36-11e5-b08d-0025b3df357a

error OOPS-9f50ddf94d42118063dea4e728c2ba7

[Peter Anderson (1-peter-w)]

I have no idea what project this pertains to. Re the package, gconf or compiz is my guess but who knows. It may simply be an environmental change initiated by wine?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, tt's not a gconf issue and it seems likely things got uninstalled from your system for some reason. Could you add your /var/log/dpkg.log* to the bug? What's the output of "dpkg -l | grep gvfs"?

[Peter Anderson (1-peter-w)]

Dear Sebastian,
Will do. I have been doing a lot of purging and installing to try and fix
this bug but I always clear the errors and the bug is always there.
Thanks .... Peter.
On 24 Feb 2016 1:45 AM, "Sebastien Bacher" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks, tt's not a gconf issue and it seems likely things got
> uninstalled from your system for some reason. Could you add your
> /var/log/dpkg.log* to the bug? What's the output of "dpkg -l | grep
> gvfs"?
>
> ** Package changed: gconf (Ubuntu) => gvfs (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548841
>
> Title:
> Text Menus not displaying - org.gtk.vfs.Daemon
>
> Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I installed standard Ubuntu 14.04 LTS about a 3 weeks ago and
> everything has been working fine. After a fortnight of all working
> fine I installed Wine via the standard package manager and then
> installed a simple windows exe WBridge5 (using wine) and then ran it a
> couple of times using wine and all was fine. Note that this may be
> irrelevant.
>
> In the morning when I started my DELL Inspiron 6400 and after
> entering my password the standard desktop appeared without my
> previously set background; the file mgr appears automatically (without
> the recent files icon) and the following message appears:
>
> "Oops something went wrong. Unhandled error message: The name
> org.gtk.vfs.Daemon was not provided by any .Service files."
>
> After acknowledging the message, my programs operate but WITHOUT a
> text menu showing on the top menu bar. There are other minor
> inconveniences such as Alt+Tab doesn't work and there is no "Recent"
> option on the Files program and "System Settings Appearance" cannot be
> changed. The show stopper for me is that unless a program has a non
> text menu method of running a menu option, you are stuffed. This
> affects Libreoffice really badly.
>
> I have tried all sorts of things and most of these have been logged on
> askubuntu where there is more information. See :
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/736528/ubuntu-desktop-problem-org-gtk-vfs-daemon-error
>
> Please help!!!!!!
>
> bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+filebug/7117814e-da36-11e5
> -b08d-0025b3df357a
>
> error OOPS-9f50ddf94d42118063dea4e728c2ba7
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1548841/+subscriptions
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[Peter Anderson (1-peter-w)]

Sebastien, Log files as requested. Grep in another attachement. Regards......... Peter.

[Peter Anderson (1-peter-w)]

I can't believe it. I have been trying so many things to fix this bug. The bug is now largely fixed but a few problems remain. (see below) Last night just before I reported this bug, I removed and reinstalled the compiz, unity and gconf packages using apt-get. I am not absolutely sure that how much was actually removed as I got a number of messages about not being able to remove /usr/share/dbus-1/services. files. In order to let these packages be re-installed I removed the whole directory:

sudo rm /usr/share/dbus-1/services

The situation now is that the window text menus now appear in the unity session. Further Alt+Tab now switches between windows.

Not quite clear what has fixed this - as it the reinstall or the removal of the dbus-1 directory. The following problems still exist:

Changes to System Settings Appearance don't save and existing ones take no effect, e.g. existing background.
Unable to start the Terminal app. It simply does not appear. Ctrl+Alt+F1 is continues to fine.
The org.gtk.vfs message still appears at start up of the session.
Further I have just noticed that it appears when I press Browse Network on the Files app.

The message may be completely irrelevant but it certainly did not appear when I first installed ubuntu.

[Peter Anderson (1-peter-w)]

Another thing that is NOT working. I am unable to access the Rubbish Bin via the Files app. Again I get the error window:
"Oops! ... Unhandled error message: The name org.gtk.vfs.Daemon was not provides by any service."

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