Ubuntu
nautilus package

Desktop is unstable. Icons dissappear when moved then desktop freezes.

Bug #376077 reported by Thurston Sebotsane
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

(Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope)

I have a few icons on my desktop that always appear misaligned after each restart. If I proceed to move them around on the screen to realign them they dissapear from the desktop (after about 4 to 5 moves). After this, the desktop freezes and cannot accept anymore commands (e.g. right mouse click has no effect at all).

Other applications will continue to operate normally including the taskbars. This freeze seems only to affect the desktop.

I always have to restart to regain control of the Desktop.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/ekiga
delance (olivier-delance)
affects: ubuntu → gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

affects: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) → nautilus (Ubuntu)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
summary: - (Jaunty) Desktop is unstable. Icons dissappear when moved then desktop
- freezes.
+ Desktop is unstable. Icons dissappear when moved then desktop freezes.
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Thurston Sebotsane (thurston-itcio) wrote :

Hi Sebastien. I am still fairly new to ubuntu, I followed all the steps in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash. Now for me to do a backtrace, I need to know the name of the application that I can include it in the GDB command. My problem is with the Desktop, what is the application name that I need to use for this?

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Thurston Sebotsane (thurston-itcio) wrote :

For more clarity on my issue; I need to know how to do a backtrace for issues related to the Desktop and not applications on it.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the desktop is managed by the nautilus software

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Thurston Sebotsane (thurston-itcio) wrote :

The attached file is the result of the processes I followed in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash. I hope this will be sufficient to help.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no crash in this log, you need to use gdb on the running nautilus as explained on the wikipage

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote :

Since this bug hasn't been responded to in the past 4 months I am marking as invalid. if the bug is still an issue with Karmic please feel free to open this bug report back up if you can obtain a good gdb.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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