Nautilus gives no error message if an application fails to start
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Expired
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High
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
If I try to run an application by double clicking it in Nautilus and the application for some reason fails to start I get no error message. If I try to run the same application in the Terminal, I always get an error message such as "Segmentation fault (core dumped)", "error while loading shared libraries: xxxxxx.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" or "./a.out: Permission denied". Without an error message it is impossible to tell what went wrong and if the application did something or not. Nautilus should show the error messages too. Even better it should give a solution to the problem such as offering to install a missing package or asking if the user want's to give the file execute permission.
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.
If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.
If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/ apport/ apport- qt --crash- file=/var/ crash/_ my_crash_ report. crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_ report. crash is the crash you would like to report.
I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.