Couldn't open display computer:/// Places Computer

[David Balažic]

Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 x86_64 desktop CD

After booting the live environment from CD, clicking menu Places / Computer gives an error instead of the Computer window.

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

The error dialog title is : Couldn't display "computer:///".

Text :
Error: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Please select another viewer and try again.

Buttons : OK

[SK (stephantom)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to improve Ubuntu!
This report was not reported against a specific package. I have assigned the correct package now.
Please try to file future bug reports against the right packages. You can learn to find the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage

Nautilus (the GNOME File Manager) is being migrated to gvfs right now. The computer:// protocol was added again in a very recent release which is available via the Hardy repositories. Because of this I will mark this issue as fixed.
If you can still reproduce the bug with the latest versions, please reopen this bug!

Feel free to report any other issues you might find!

[biomathman (bes-shapon)]

I have Hardy release 8.04, not the alpha or beta version. I still have this bug.

I have upgraded again to the latest version of gvfs, nautilus, and gnome applets, but I still get "Couldn't display "computer:///" - There is no application installed for this file type." This occurred immediately after upgrading to hardy from gutsy. Other problems occurred the same time:

I also have a similar problem with the Network Servers Icon. It says Couldn't display "network:///" Nautilus can not handle network: locations."

I also have a similar problem with Trash. The Trash applet does not display in the panel, just a small vertical line, and when I click on the line it says "The folder could not be displayed. Sorry, couldn't display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported"; when I click on the trash icon in the Nautilus places menu it spins and spins until Nautilus freezes and dies. Right clicking on the trash icon and "Empty Trash" is grayed out.

The only way I can delete trash is to navigate in the terminal to navigate to ~/local/share/Trash and manually remove the contents of both files and info in the terminal.

dmesg did not tell me anything

I have Nautilus 2.22.2
Trash Applet 2.22.1
Gnome 2.22.1
Kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
64 Bit Linux on Core 2 Quad 6600 CPU

[Jeff Bronks (jeffb-dsl)]

Me too: Hardy Heron, final version, upgraded from Gutsy.

Places > Computer gives "Nautilus cannot handle computer: locations".

Places > Network gives "Nautilus cannot handle network: locations".

Trash applet is missing, but I can click on the bottom rightmost pixel in the bottom panel. Then I get "Sorry. Couldn't display all the contents of "trash". Operation not supported." Clicking the trash icon in Nautilus hangs the Nautilus window.

Nautilus 2.22.3
Gnome applets 2.22.3

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody still get the issue using the current versions?

[biomathman (bes-shapon)]

No, this problem went away for me after I reinstalled 8.04 from
scratch.

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 16:16 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> oes anybody still get the issue using the current versions?
>
> ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Couldn't open display computer:/// Places Computer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189288
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gvfs” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 x86_64 desktop CD
>
> After booting the live environment from CD, clicking menu Places /
> Computer gives an error instead of the Computer window.

[Jeff Bronks (jeffb-dsl)]

Yes, I still have all the problems described above.

nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
gnome-applets 2.22.3-0ubuntu2
gvfs 0.2.5-0ubuntu2

[Richard de Rivaz (richard-mdr)]

This same problem (Nautilus cannot handle computer: locations) has appeared after I updated 6.06LTS to 8.04.

nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
gnome-applets 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
gvfs 0.2.5-0ubuntu2

[Jeff Bronks (jeffb-dsl)]

I gave up and reinstalled 8.04, but keeping my home directory. It's all working now.

[Felix Kämmler (felixkaemmler-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello guys, i had to suffer under this ******* update as well. I spent hours n front of my computer, downgraded gvfs, reinstalled it, reinstalled nautilus over and over again-- nothing worked.

But now I got it working! nautilus will handle computer: , network: and trash: correctly. The only thing that got it for me was downgrading bth gvfs and gvfs-backends to version 0.2.3-0ubuntu3.
(0.2.3-0ubuntu4 is the version in the hardy repo, 0.2.5-0ubuntu2 the one in hardy-updates.)
I used the download page from launchpad, you can also search for the packages there (debs available):
gvfs-backends 0.2.3-0ubuntu3:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/amd64/gvfs-backends/0.2.3-0ubuntu3
gvfs 0.2.3-0ubuntu3:
 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/amd64/gvfs/0.2.3-0ubuntu3
then download the debs. if you don't get your native package manager to install them because you have a newer version installed, type the following into a console:
sudo dpkg -i PATH\ OF\ DEB-FILE\

I hope it works for you. Remember not to update these files ever....
I'm so happy now!! Good luck to all of you as well with this problem..

PS: I think updating on linux is 3times worse than virus attacks on windows. But maybe it's a god idea to forget about all hardy-update repos and only take repos from hardy, hardy-security and hardy-backports...that's what I do now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody still get this issue in intrepid?

[xyz (a-apostolovski)]

My Ubuntu 8.04 got freezed before 30mins and after i restarted it i couldn't go to Computer and Network, it showed me the those errors :S I don't have a clue why that happen to me. I wan't doing any updates at that time or other stuff, i wasn't even on my computer :S

[xyz (a-apostolovski)]

Btw, i run Ubuntu 8.04 x86 version not x64

[Gabriel Gravel (tolarian)]

I'm getting this same bug aswell. Upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 beta yesterday. I had the same problem under 8.04 aswell.

Places > Computer gives "Nautilus cannot handle computer: locations".

Places > Network gives "Nautilus cannot handle network: locations".

The Trash icon gives me the error "Sorry. Couldn't display all the contents of "trash". Operation not supported."

Nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
gnome-applets 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
gvfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu1

Linux gabriel-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have things you installed locally? a gvfs installation for example?

[Gabriel Gravel (tolarian)]

After what happened with the previous bug, I made sure all my local installations were properly removed, so I do or did not have any local installations of gvfs.

The bug did fix itself after I reinstalled the nautilus and gvfs packages in the package manager and rebooted, sorry for the disturbance.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue was likely due to a local installation then and non an ubuntu bug

[Richard de Rivaz (richard-mdr)]

Hello Gabriel

On 28/10/2008, you wrote:

> After what happened with the previous bug, I made sure all my local
> installations were properly removed, so I do or did not have any local
> installations of gvfs.
>
> The bug did fix itself after I reinstalled the nautilus and gvfs
> packages in the package manager and rebooted, sorry for the
> disturbance.

I have reinstalled gvfs and nautilus using Synaptic and rebooted,
Unfortunately the problem persists.

'Nautilus cannot handle computer: locations'

Is it possible that part of Nautilus or a dependency is not installed? Is
there any way of checking what could be missing?

Regards Richard
--
  __// Richard de Rivaz
  \X/ MDR Interfaces Ltd
                 computer control specialists
--
       Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Reg in England No.1577056 Directors: R de Rivaz, Z de Rivaz
Reg Address: Little Bridge House, Danehill, Sussex RH17 7JD
--
               http://www.mdr.co.uk
--

[robins80 (robins80)]

Is there any word at all on a fix for this? I've reverted my gvfs and gvfs-backends packages to 0.2.3-0ubuntu3 and I'm still getting this problem.

[Richard de Rivaz (richard-mdr)]

Hello robins80

On 13/11/2008, you wrote:

> Is there any word at all on a fix for this? I've reverted my gvfs and
> gvfs-backends packages to 0.2.3-0ubuntu3 and I'm still getting this
> problem.

When I came to update to 8.10 my system failed to display anything and no
end of reconfiguring xorg could get beyond a command prompt. In the end I
had to reformat the machine using a clean 8.10 install. Whether the two
problems were related I do not know but that finally fixed it! Before
upgrading save any vital data to some other device.

Regards Richard
--
  __// Richard de Rivaz
  \X/ MDR Interfaces Ltd
                 computer control specialists
--
       Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Reg in England No.1577056 Directors: R de Rivaz, Z de Rivaz
Reg Address: Little Bridge House, Danehill, Sussex RH17 7JD
--
               http://www.mdr.co.uk
--

[joe (ktsk27)]

Hello,everybody.
I have same problem here.
I didn't have this problem before.
But,perhaps,when I upgraded ubuntu-doc to the latest one,this happened.
I am using screenlets's trash as an alternative way now.
It's working.
But I have to delete "trash info" with using command line.
I'm not very good at computers so it's hard to understand complicated things for me.
Is there something that I can do about this thing?
I did uninstall ubuntu-doc but anything didn't change at all.

Best regards,
joe.

[elysianfields (elysianfields44)]

I can confirm this problem in Intrepid. I don't have a local installation of gvfs. Is there any prospect of this being fixed, or is downgrading the gvfs and gvfs-backends the only solution? Thank you.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

somebody having the issue should open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org where the people writting the code will read it

[pbosio (bosio-patricio)]

it seems that the only solution it's to downgraded gvfs and gvfs-backends packages, when i try to do this, it told me that a lot of dependencies will be delete... is there any way for this not to hapend? cuase i don't want/have time to reinstall all those packages again... may gtk the cause of this problem too?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug there makes no real sense, are you sure you don't have mismatch gvfs versions or a local install? can you run

- dpkg -l | grep gvfs
- locate gvfsd
- ldd /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd

and add those logs to the bug?

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

I tried ubuntu-9.04-beta-desktop-i386.iso on vmware and after boot the "taskbar" is full of some windows (they have the drawerbox icon, the title is only "...") and they keep "moving" (either new ones are continually added or removed).
The desktop is black and the mouse pointer is the wait one.

The top menu works, I could start a terminal.

Is this a known issue with the beta or yet another bug ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug you described was a known issue on some configurations and has been fixed since beta you can upgrade or try daily images

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

I tried the daily (jaunty-desktop-i386.iso from 31-mar-2009)
and there it works:

After booting the live environment from CD, clicking menu Places / Computer gives the "Computer" windows with proper content.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since that works correctly now

[Hans van den Bogert (hbogert)]

I'd like to reopen, same bug in the K. Koala !

[Foaming Draught (foamingdraught)]

Yep, same here. trying to open "Computer" or "Places/Computer" gives the DBus Error etc. Karmic daily build 12 June 09, Ext 4. I've reinstalled Nautilus and gvfs to no effect.

This bug has been live for over a year, covering several releases of Ubuntu, and still hasn't been addressed. Whoever keeps closing the bug reports as "Fixed' obviously doesn't know how to Google.

[beanpop (karen-diana-mason)]

I have the exact same problem with Trash. I have tried everything listed in every single webpage I can find regarding this issue.

I am pretty appalled by the fact that SO many people have this problem but there doesn't seem to be an actual resolution for it, instead people just keep suggesting half assed temporary fixes. This is ridiculous.

[Dimitri (spam2)]

I've had this problem for the last 2 months. Can't access my Trash or Computer folders.

Maybe it was something to do with the fact that I had upgraded from Hardy to Ibex to Jaunty? (Although this problem didn't happen for at least a couple weeks after I upgraded to Jaunty.)

I tried the recommendations from the following page, but that didn't fix it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/233889

And, I shouldn't have to install an unstable daily build, just to trade one bug for fifty new ones :)

I'm seriously considering re-installing Hardy from scratch, but if I have to spend my weekend downgrading, just to avoid these bugs, I might as well switch to a different distro or OS altogether, and be done with it.

D

[Doctor Drive (docdrive)]

I've got same problem running karmic 9.10 final (not upgraded from jaunty) with gvfs 1.4.1-0ubuntu1

[David Balažic (xerces8)]

I just tried 9.10 i386 desktop live and it works without an error.

[Łukasz Czerwiński (milimetr88)]

I got the same error on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). In the beginning everything was OK. The error 'Could not display "computer:". Nautilus cannot handle "computer" locations.' started to appear after I had changed system language (or maybe just opened Administration -> Language support and downloaded missing language packages for my language - Polish). Then I have set the language to English, but it didn't help.
Reinstalling nautilus (sudo aptitude reinstall nautilus) didn't solve the problem.

[Aleck Agakhan (aleck-agakhan)]

I got the same error on Ubuntu 10.10. By the way, Krusader still works with trash:/ and other schemas, whereas nautilus says that the "trash: " operation not supported.