Gnome-Shell activities file search does not find any file below /home/user/

Bug #1732780 reported by Ralf Hersel
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Shell
Expired
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Marco Trevisan (Treviño)

Bug Description

Description:
Searching for files in Gnome-Shell activities does not work because it returns no search results for files stored deeper than /home/user/.

Environment:
Ubuntu 17.04
Gnome-Shell 3.26.1
Language German (Swiss)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create whatever file in a directory located under /home/user/ e.g. /home/user/documents/test.txt
2. Open Gnome-Shell activities by hitting SUPER-key
2. Enter the name of that existing file in the search field
3. Wait or press RETURN
4. Effect: no files found

Positive indication:
If that file is located exactly in /home/user/, the file search will find it.

Negative indication:
a) Recursive search is broken.
b) Ubuntu Settings, Search, Files, Configuration cog button is disabled

Work-around:
Use Nautilus file search instead.

Tags: gnome-17.10
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-shell:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → nautilus (Ubuntu)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
nautilus (1:3.26.2-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version
  * debian/patches/git_fat_chars.patch:
    - list ‘\’ and ‘|’ as non valid on fat filesystems
  * debian/patches/0002-Only-use-a-header-bar-in-GNOME-shell.patch:
    - delete that patch, it was commented and we are not going to it

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:35:36 +0100

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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