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Nautilus' "File Operation" dialog gets stuck and prevents opening new Nautilus windows

Bug #647979 reported by Hernando Torque
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

To reproduce:

1. Open Nautilus
2. Copy a file large enough to trigger the "File Operation" dialog (I just copied an ISO from a to b)
3. Close Nautilus

Now the Nautilus launcher shows a running indicator and its quicklist allows you to show the copy dialog (a small, empty window). You can quit it via the global menu or the quicklist, but that seems to only hide the dialog and Nautilus keeps showing the running indicator, which prevents starting another Nautilus window.

I'm not seeing this in a desktop session, or at least I don't know how to check if it happens there too.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.44-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 26 11:03:24 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

The WM_CLIENT_LEADER id returned by using 'xprop' on the file copy dialog isn't available in a desktop session after the dialog closes, so this seems to be a UNE-only problem (I hope I picked the right property).

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Seems to happen in unity session only (should be because nautilus isn't started as a background process).

Maybe not having this property hides a more serious laying issue.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Maybe I'm missing something, but Nautilus _is_ running in a Unity session after login.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

that's because you change the gconf key or save your session. It shouldn't :)

Well, the unity team is on it in any case, that's a bad use case

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Didn't change any gconf keys and didn't safe any sessions. To confirm, I just installed the daily Netbook ISO - same thing: Nautilus is running in the background.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Sorry, I mispoke :)
Yes, it's running on the background (to mount keys and such), but don't show the desktop :)

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
affects: unity (Ubuntu) → bamf (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

will need some work in unity too

Changed in bamf:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Released → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package bamf - 0.2.58-0ubuntu1

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bamf (0.2.58-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix Nautilus' "File Operation" dialog gets stuck and prevents opening new
      Nautilus windows (LP: #647979)
    - Fix bamfdaemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash() (LP: #638705)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:28:40 +0200

Changed in bamf (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.46-0ubuntu2

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unity (0.2.46-0ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Cherry pick from upstream:
    - hanges the launcher behaviour to launch a new application if no user
      visible windows are found to fix (LP: #647979)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:14:26 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

I now can open Nautilus (which fixes the important part), but the running-indicator is still shown.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

hernando, reported the last comment as bug 651953

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Tomasz Magulski (magul) wrote :

Hernando, what does it mean that You can open Nautilus? Using terminal, or using launcher?

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Omer: Thanks, but then let's also close this one's Unity task.

Tomasz: With Unity 0.2.46 I can open new Nautilus instances from the launcher, just the running indicator from the dialog is still present if there's no Nautilus window open.

Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Guillaume Modard (guillaumemodard) wrote :

I've this bug in Unity 3 in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

@Guillaume Modard: Confirmed, opened a new bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/685599

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
no longer affects: bamf (Ubuntu Quantal)
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