Trash applet is invisible

I'm not sure if this is related to this bug, or if it's "normal" behavior: undeleting (moving to Desktop) a large file, like a movie, takes a VERY LONG time, as the whole file is copied (or looks like it). As my whole home directory (including Desktop and .local) is in one partition, I can only imagine that either a copy is done by nautilus, or that for some reason the file is moved to someplace else (/tmp?) first.

But then maybe something in my semi-upgraded Gnome setup thinks that it should use the non-/home partition for some reason.

Can you take an screenshot of the issue? Your report isn't clear for me.

This was actually rather difficult, as it took more than just a few logouts this time to get the trashbin back.

What I did was create a file, 'foo', and delete it, logout/login -> no-trash.png. In the lower-right corner there should be the trash applet (and sometimes you can click on the one pixel width to make the trash actually open in a nautilus window).

Then I opened the trash (Go->Trash in nautilus), emptied it, and logged out/in a few times (and because the trash did not reappear, did delete/empty another time). Interestingly, now at one point, Go-Trash didn't even work (I got the spinning cursor and nothing more, but logging out/in another time brought back the - empty - trash, as can be seen in trash.png.

Note that I performed no changes to the panel (no adding/removing applets), just the usual trash things.

It seems like the appearance of the trash after login depends on the trash being empty, but that doesn't seem to be enough on its own, as explained above: it took a couple more logins.

I can confirm this bug/behavior on Ubuntu Hardy Beta, with all updates as of 2008-03-31

Confirmed here.

I see this too, i.e., logout, login, then trash can is very likely invisible. The applet is running (e.g., ps says it's running), in fact right-clicking at a thin region where you expect it, its right-click menu still shows up. So it's as though it has a very thin width.

I upgraded from 7.10, and then applied all updates for hardy as of April 8 01:20am EDT.

Observable in LiveCD too.

I find a high correlation to user's bonobo-activation-server not dying after logout. Manually kill it after gnome logout (e.g., go to text console to login and look for it and kill it), and next gnome login the trash can is visible again.

This comment cross-references this bug with #49594:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/49594

I also write a comment over there to cross-reference to here.

I can confirme all the above described by Albert.

I'm marking this bus as duplicate of 49594. Please do not hesitate to revert if I'm mistaking.