GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 535230
Can't edit icon launcher properties
Last modified: 2010-07-04 20:07:16 UTC
Please describe the problem: If you have an application icon on the desktop and goto properties --> launcher, the window will just disappear after a second. Steps to reproduce: 1. Drag an application from the menu onto the desktop 2. Right click the icon on the desktop and select properties 3. Select the launcher tab Actual results: The properties window closes. Expected results: The properties window should remain open so the application launcher details can be edited. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
Hello, From what I read, it seems the application responsible to display the properties is crashing. Do you have a dialog that warnin you Nautilus crashed ? Could you confirm that ? If it crash, could you install debug packages (glib, gtk+, gvfs, libeel and nautilus at least), refer to http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so and reopen this bug or report a new one. Thanks in advance!
AFAICT, it isn't crashing, no crash dialogue and no error in dmesg.
Just to ensure this is not a crash, please do the following Could you install the debug packages I listed above and launch nautilus inside a debuger to see what happen; to do so just open a terminal and type gdb `pidof nautilus`. Now do the action you described and see if it report a crash. thanks
OK, I installed the following packages nautilus-debuginfo-2.22.2-7.fc9.x86_64 gvfs-debuginfo-0.2.3-11.fc9.x86_64 gtk2-debuginfo-2.12.9-5.fc9.x86_64 eel2-debuginfo-2.22.1-2.fc9.x86_64 glib2-debuginfo-2.16.3-5.fc9.x86_64 Then did $ killall nautilus # To restart it, dunno if that was needed. $ gdb /usr/bin/nautilus `pgrep nautilus` then this (gdb) cont Continuing. Reproduced the problem and got this [New Thread 0x4264e950 (LWP 35789)] [New Thread 0x41485950 (LWP 35790)] [Thread 0x4264e950 (LWP 35789) exited] [New Thread 0x4264e950 (LWP 35794)] [New Thread 0x41c86950 (LWP 35795)] [Thread 0x41485950 (LWP 35790) exited] [Thread 0x41c86950 (LWP 35795) exited] [New Thread 0x41c86950 (LWP 35797)] [New Thread 0x41485950 (LWP 35798)] [Thread 0x41c86950 (LWP 35797) exited] [Thread 0x4264e950 (LWP 35794) exited]
Hmm, I should probably mention that my home directory is mounted over NFS.
I can reproduce this in GNOME 2.22.2 on FreeBSD i386 and amd64. Nautilus is not crashing, and there are no errors in the .xsession-errors log. It looks like a GUI programming mistake where the window is just destroyed. Other FreeBSD users report the same thing. The version of Nautilus is 2.22.3.
Andrew, Are you using FreeBSD too ? do you have any message in .xsession-errors? on Ubuntu hardy, it works fine, (I'm using x86 though).
I'm using Linux (Fedora 9) on x86_64 No errors appear in .xsession-errors
I personally see the error on i386 and amd64. My home directories are mounted locally. It doesn't work properly in Ubuntu for everyone. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/224642 .
Is this still a problem in a recent version of nautilus? Tried in 2.30 and cannot reproduce.
Heh, I'd totally forgotten about this. Running GNOME 2.28.2 / Nautilus 2.28.4 on Fedora 12 64bit. I no longer see this issue.
Thank you for letting us know.