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Bug 681587 - Searching in nautilus produces no results
Searching in nautilus produces no results
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Search Interface
3.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-10 08:33 UTC by Stef Walter
Modified: 2012-10-29 12:50 UTC
See Also:
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Description Stef Walter 2012-08-10 08:33:33 UTC
In the nautilus search bar if I type the name of a file (or part of that name) and press enter (or wait) I get no results in the window. This seems to happen in any folder.

Installed Packages
Name        : nautilus
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.5.4
Release     : 3.fc18
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-08-10 12:03:07 UTC
This should be fixed already in 3.5.5. Can you confirm please?
Comment 2 Colin Law 2012-08-11 14:39:02 UTC
I see this if I select All Files for the search (using 1:3.5.5-0ubuntu3), but it works ok within the current folder.  See downstream bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1035091
Comment 3 Stef Walter 2012-08-16 19:53:25 UTC
The originally reported issue is now fixed with 3.5.5. However like Colin "All Files" mode produces exactly the same results as searching within the current folder.
Comment 4 Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity) 2012-09-24 21:25:23 UTC
I seem to be hitting a similar bug – or at least similar symptoms (no results, stuck on "Searching..." forever) in 3.5.5, 3.5.91 and even 3.6 ...

Nautilus also prints the following to stderr:

(nautilus:1202859): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(nautilus:1202859): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
** (nautilus:1202859): CRITICAL **: nautilus_search_provider_set_query: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_SEARCH_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
** (nautilus:1202859): CRITICAL **: nautilus_search_provider_start: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_SEARCH_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
** (nautilus:1202859): CRITICAL **: nautilus_search_provider_stop: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_SEARCH_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
** (nautilus:1202859): CRITICAL **: nautilus_search_provider_set_query: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_SEARCH_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
** (nautilus:1202859): CRITICAL **: nautilus_search_provider_start: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_SEARCH_PROVIDER (provider)' failed

Note that I do not have Tracker installed, but if I understand things correctly, Nautilus should use its built-in search provider anyway.

[Should this go in a separate bug report?]
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-09-27 00:46:51 UTC
@Mantas: yes, please file that as a separate bug report, possibly with a backtrace before the first warning (set the environment variable G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings before running it in gdb to make it break at the first warning).

@Stef: can you still see the bug you mention in comment #3 with 3.6.0 or git master?
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-10-29 12:50:19 UTC
I believe this can be closed as FIXED now.