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Bug 590292 - Nautilus gives not error message if an application fails to start
Nautilus gives not error message if an application fails to start
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91362
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-30 17:00 UTC by Victor Vargas
Modified: 2011-02-23 15:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.31/2.32


Description Victor Vargas 2009-07-30 17:00:20 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2010-11-02 22:46:22 UTC 
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it.
Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field?

Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here.

Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2010-11-03 09:59:53 UTC 
the issue is easy enough to test you could do it yourself rather than setting the bug to incomplete with a question
Comment 3 Stefano Teso 2011-02-23 15:23:06 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91362 ***