nautilus disappear desktop icons and freeze open folders on jaunty

[Francisco Costa]

Binary package hint: nautilus

This happens a few seconds after startup. When I kill de process the problem appears again 3-5 seconds after nautilus reboot.
When I open nautilus for the terminal I get:
"
franciscocosta@franciscocosta-desktop:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:9651): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: 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.

(nautilus:9651): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: 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.
"

I'm using the latest x64 Jaunty

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: nautilus 1:2.25.91-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-7-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, how do you start your session? is dbus running?

[Francisco Costa (mail-franciscocosta)]

I start my session normally...
I don't know what dbus is :/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does running dbus-launch nautilus work correctly?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[cooper (johnferk)]

I've encountered this same bug in Jaunty and judging from posts on Ubunutuforums I am not the only one running into the issue. Simply put, if one clicks on a Desktop icon all icons on the Desktop disappear. Also, clicking on the Desktop itself will no longer bring up a menu.

The panel functions continue to work. In my case, Awn continues to work.

However, to retrieve the Desktop icons I need to reboot.

The problem appears randomly. Sometimes the system will run for an entire session and all is well. Other times, it crashes on the first click of a Desktop icon.

dbus-launch nautilus works correctly

System -amd64, dual monitors, NVIDIA 8500 GTS, Jaunty 9.04. This is not a laptop.

[parq (pablo-romeroquinteros)]

Same bug.

More info:

$ dbus-launch nautilus
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.1

** (nautilus:2146): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: No soportado
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: La «red compartida» devolvió el error 255: info_fn: file /var/lib/samba/usershares/iso is not a well formed usershare file.
info_fn: Error was Path is not a directory.

After that, nautilus hangs and i've to kill it. If I restart nautilus, it happens again. After launch the command, nautilus opens and when I select a directory, it gets freeze.

[Abhishek aka Celldweller (abhishek1591)]

same bug .

Info :
$ dbus-launch nautilus
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

** (nautilus:5983): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported

After that, my icons came back but if i click any icon again , then thet disappear again .To sort it out ,i installed cairo dock to open my desktop icons properly but its just a replacement, not solution of the bug.

[Корбанов Динар (qdinar)]

i have bug like that, but desktop icons disappeared today on nearly 3rd day of utpime.

[Mariano Chavero (marianochavero)]

I have the same problem. Please help

[Felix Yan (felixonmars)]

same problem here, I tried dbus-launch nautilus but nautilus showed then freeze
here are the terminal output:

$ dbus-launch nautilus
** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.7

(nautilus:3570): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(nautilus:3570): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `DbusmenuMenuitem'

(nautilus:3570): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

(nautilus:3570): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-CRITICAL **: dbusmenu_menuitem_property_set_variant: assertion `DBUSMENU_IS_MENUITEM(mi)' failed