Ubuntu
nautilus package

nautilus hangs with "Searching for appropriate applications

Bug #82501 reported by Jim Tarvid
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Click on a .gnumeric file on the desktop, add/remove programs opens, finds Gnumeric, opens "Searching for appropriate programs" and hangs.

Kill with xkill

Repeat, select Gnumeric, download starts but stalls

Restart apt-proxy

apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get install gnumeric all proceed normally

May be failure to start apt-proxy (but I have been using it without manual restart for days).

Nautilus should time out with an appropriate error message

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. The description is not clear, is gnome-app-install (which install the application) or nautilus (the file browser) hanging? What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you get a backtrace for the hang (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace)? Do you have anything to .xsession-errors about that? Does using gnome-app-install not started from nautilus acts differently?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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