Unclickable dialogue box steals focus when an executable text file is double clicked in nautilus.

Bug #238425 reported by Drew Fitzsimmons
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

In Hardy as of 8 Jun 2008.

Nautilus 2.22.2

If a text file has executable permissions set and is double clicked in nautilus the following occurs.
A dialogue box saying

Do you want to run "test.c", or display it's contents?
"test.c" is an executable text file.

There are four options:

Run in terminal
Display
Cancel
Run

This is as it should be.

After a short delay another dialogue box appears and steals focus from the first.
The message is:

Opening "test.c"
You can stop this operation by clicking cancel.

The dialogue contains a single cancel button.

The button is unclickable.

The only way to get rid of the window is to change focus back to the first dialogue and select and option. Both dialogues are then destroyed.

Problem occurs whether text file is really executable or not.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 8 23:45:55 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug

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Drew Fitzsimmons (drew-fitzsimmons) wrote :
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st33med (st33med) wrote :

Does the text file contain anything or not? From what your screenshot shows, it is a C file. Could you provide that file?

Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Incomplete
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Drew Fitzsimmons (drew-fitzsimmons) wrote :

I'll attach the file but as I mentioned it happens with any text file as long as execute permissions are set.

Try this:

create a text file
chmod 700 <filename>
double click it in nautilus

wait about 5 seconds.

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st33med (st33med) wrote :

OK, sorry, should have mention to change it back once you provided the info. (New to this)
OK, I can reproduce what you said. Cancel is unclickable and such. I should have waited instead of hitting Run...
Switched bug to 'Confirmed'

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Confirming on intrepid and sent upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539954

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → New
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Drew Fitzsimmons (drew-fitzsimmons) wrote :

Bug is still present in intrepid two weeks before release.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in nautilus:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix saving of spatial window geometry on close
    - Remove trailing spaces on filenames when copying to FAT file systems
    - Allow emblems that don't start with "emblem-" (lp: #55574)
    - On unmount close tabs that show the unmounted location
    - Fixed redraw issues with labels on zoom
    - Don't toggle sidebar splitter when dragging it
    - Fix bookmark issue that sometimes led to locations not loading
    - Don't show the "cancel" dialog after a timeout when displaying a dialog
      (lp: #238425)
    - Fix crashes and leaks
    - Don't change the default association when using a software which is not
      listed by default (lp: #260492)
  * debian/patches/90_correct_spatial_geometry.patch:
    - the change is in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:11:57 +0200

Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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