Ubuntu
libbonobo package

no drive icons, Home folders pop up instead

Bug #66248 reported by Tormod Volden
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libbonobo (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Ubuntu Edgy Beta++
Sometimes when I log in, there are no drive icons on the desktop, instead around 4 nautilus windows pop up with my home directory. I have 5 extra partitions. If I go to "Computer" there is only the "File System" and none of my partitions.
If I kill/run "nautilus" it comes back to normal.

Other times things are normal, and I get the 5 drives on my desktop.

Seems to be caused by a bonobo-activation-server hanging around from an earlier session. Apparently, logging out does not always terminate this server.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

I think this is a nautilus bug, since the gnome-vfs-list output seems normal:
$ gnomevfs-ls computer:///
Filesystem.desktop (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
dapper.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
%02.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
9.3%20GB%20Volume.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
CD-ROM%2FDVD-ROM%20Drive.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
Floppy%20Drive.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
music.volume (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
homes.volume (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. That looks like a gnome-vfs or dbus issue. How do you start GNOME? Do you have anything to ~/.xsession-errors about it?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Gnome is started through normal GDM login. Fairly standard Ubuntu Edgy installation. Nothing special in .xsession-errors.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

The normal-looking "gnomevfs-ls computer:///" output does not mean gnome-vfs is fine? Are there some other tests I can do?

Maybe a race condition? My laptop is so slow that I bump into things that better-equipped people never see.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

"sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart" made the drives appear again.

The dbus-monitor output after is the same. The lshal output is the same. But there is some changes in the gnomevfs-ls output compared to the one I posted earlier. For instance "dapper.volume" instead of "dapper.drive"

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

After a reboot, this time I have the icons and gnomevfs-ls says "dapper.drive" like it said when I didn't have icons. So there is not much of a correlation there.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

This seems to correlate with having a bonobo-activation-server running from a previous login. I tried >5 times to login, checking for any bonobo running, there was none, and the icons appeared. Twice the icons were missing, and both times an old bonobo (from before logging in) was running. It is visible in the ps aux output attached above as well.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

I logged in and had no icons, then I killed the old bonobo-activation-server and when I went to Computer afterwards, I could see the icons.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)
description: updated
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almoser (almoser) wrote :

Well, I can confirm this bug. I get it with a fresh Edgy install. I also found a way to fix it. Add this to your start-up programs under sessions:

nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-jmMmvl

This fixes it.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

Changed in libbonobo:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing it since no more information has been provided, feel free to re open it if you may give us the information we asked for. Also would be nice if you may test it with our development version of Ubuntu the Gutsy Gibbon you may grab a CD Image from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

Changed in libbonobo:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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