Renaming causes error message "The requested operation could not be completed"

[Jussi]

Way to reproduce the problem:

1. Choose file from your desktop.
2. Open menu with right mouse button.
3. Choose rename.
4. Do not change the name or close the dialog, but wait for 15 seconds.
5. The error message appears and trash can will be disabled until you close the dialog.
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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-17 (1416 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xfdesktop4 4.11.6-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-05 (182 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare
_MarkForUpload: True

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

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[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

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[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. A new version of xfdesktop4 will be available soon and needs to be tested (bug 1365965, read comment #2 for instructions). If this update does not fix your issue, please forward the bug to the Xfce bug tracker and tell us the bug number (or the link). Thanks in advance.

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Way to reproduce the problem:

1. Choose file from your desktop.
2. Open menu with right mouse button.
3. Choose rename.
4. Do not change the name or close the dialog, but wait for 15 seconds.
5. The error message appears and trash can will be disabled until you close the dialog.

xfdesktop version 4.11.8 and earlier are affected.

For more detail see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/1388946

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11283

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Now also tested with fresh Xubuntu installation with virtualbox.

[Eric Koegel (eric-koegel)]

We're hitting DBUS's reply timeout. We'll have to find a way to perform the call without a timeout to fix this. The code in question is in:
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/src/xfdesktop-file-utils.c#n691
which calls xfdesktop_file_manager_proxy_rename_file_async
There's a dbus_g_proxy_call_with_timeout
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-DBusGProxy.html#dbus-g-proxy-call-with-timeout
But the timeout is an int representing milliseconds which only gets up to 32 seconds (unless my math is off). Maybe dbus_g_proxy_call_no_reply? ...If that's not possible then we may have to not use dbus/thunar for renames and write the renaming dialog and operation ourselves to fix this issue.

[Jussi (jussi-lahtinen-gmail)]

Maybe I haven't understand this, if so, sorry about the noise...
It seem the event is called in wrong time, is it possible call the event only after user has given new name for the file?

[Eric Koegel (eric-koegel)]

Well right now xfdesktop doesn't have code to display the rename dialog. The good news is it's not hard, it's just a matter of adding it in.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

The same applies to the "Create New Folder" and "Create New File" dialog windows.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

As of now, we simply ignore this type of error while not breaking any functionality.

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=b0388120725ff485e5ae40fde4017aa8c7efb9cf

[Hudd (hededrk)]

*** Bug 11780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Marking as fixed.

[spike speigel (frail-knight)]

It appears this is happening again. Can this issue be reopened, or should a new one be created?

Xubuntu 19.10
xfdesktop4 4.14.1-1

[Alexxcons-x (alexxcons-x)]

Reopened ... I as well can reproduce the bug. Thanks for finding that old bug !

[spike speigel (frail-knight)]

You're welcome, thank you for verifying :)

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

The change was reverted by this commit:
https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=78d841b96ce49e0427ceaa486904a529858da0bd

[Gitbot (gitbot)]

Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit 999cbcbaa4b9ce44815b37180da944a8347254a9

Reintroduce workaround for Bug #11283

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit?id=999cbcbaa4b9ce44815b37180da944a8347254a9

[Gitbot (gitbot)]

Andre Miranda referenced this bugreport in commit 850d3aec523467b2fe3eb22dcdbd7ff55ac3c66c

Reintroduce workaround for Bug #11283

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit?id=850d3aec523467b2fe3eb22dcdbd7ff55ac3c66c