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nautilus package

Nautilus asks for user password when launched

Bug #285695 reported by Uphaar Agrawalla on 2008-10-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #260492: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Steps to reproduce:

Click on Places menu
Click on any option like Home
Nautilus pops up the gksu password prompt.

Clicking on any local bookmarked folder name produces the same result. It should not do that, but just open the said directory. This started happening after I upgraded to Intrepid beta from Hardy.
Currently running an up-to-date Intrepid.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.0-0ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic x86_64

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote on 2008-10-18:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote on 2008-10-19:

#2

Thank you for your bug report and helping improve Ubuntu!

Can you please create a new user and test if this also happens logging in as the new user?

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote on 2008-10-19:

#3

Interesting, I logged into the other user on the system and it did not ask for the password.

Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) on 2008-10-19

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote on 2008-10-19:

#4

Additional info: It happens only with links on the Places menu. If I open a folder on desktop, it opens fine without asking for any password.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#5

could you rename your .local directory and see if that's still an issue?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#6

Thanks seb, that fixed it!
I noticed that the nautilus being launched was with root's home, and not my user's. Now it opens my user's home.

Is this a bug to be fixed, as it started happening when I upgraded to Intrepid beta?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#7

what did you change to fix the issue?

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#8

Like you said, I renamed the ~/.local to something else, and then launched nautilus - it did not ask for the password and opened my home directory.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#9

you likely got an issue similar to bug #260492 then and it should be fixed now in intrepid

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-10-21:

#10

closing the bug, you can reopen if you still trigger the issue using the current version though

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