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#1 2009-01-21 07:49:21

ninian
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Help! Desktop icons gone, no right click ... and Nautilus crashes!

I have a fully upgraded Gnome-based system, and all of a sudden my desktop icons disappeared, clicking on the desktop does nothing, and every time I use Nautilus it crashes with the error (from bug report):

Distribution: Unknown
Gnome Release: 2.24.3 2009-01-20 (Archlinux)
BugBuddy Version: 2.24.2

System: Linux 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 18 20:17:17 UTC 2009 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10503000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Glider
Icon Theme: Foxtrot

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors (6 sec old) ---------------------
seahorse nautilus module initialized
** (nautilus:9421): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
** (nautilus:9421): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///home/user
--> file:///home
(nautilus:9421): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-metafile.c: metafiles" hash table still has 2 elements at quit time (keys above)
(nautilus:9421): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 2 elements at quit time
seahorse nautilus module shutdown
Shutting down nautilus-open-terminal extension
--------------------------------------------------

It doesn't seem to be an options or configuration thing, maybe more like some sort of corruption? The Panels are fine. I have checked desktop and Nautilus options using Gconf and tried recreating ~/.gconf etc. The only suspicious occurrence was when, in the middle of a pacman -Syu, I was thrown back to the GDM login prompt. I just logged in again and did another pacman -Syu and everything seemed okay.
By the way, running Nautilus as root does show root's desktop okay, but Nautilus still crashes.
Any help would be most welcome for a very frustrating problem!
wink

PS: Forgot to say that I'd tried reinstalling quite a few Gnome things and Nautilus, with no effect.
Also, the problem persists after restarting X, logon, reboot, power-off ...

Last edited by ninian (2009-01-21 09:35:05)

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#2 2009-01-21 09:10:46

alsoJones
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Registered: 2008-09-02
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Re: Help! Desktop icons gone, no right click ... and Nautilus crashes!

This happened to me a few months ago, I believe it was fixed by reinstalling gnome-desktop.  Hope this works for you.

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#3 2009-01-21 09:26:48

ninian
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Re: Help! Desktop icons gone, no right click ... and Nautilus crashes!

alsoJones wrote:

This happened to me a few months ago, I believe it was fixed by reinstalling gnome-desktop.  Hope this works for you.

Thanks for the suggestion and will try it when I get home.
Unfortunately, I think that might have been one of the things I already tried yesterday, amidst the chaos -  I forgot to say that I had tried reinstalling quite a few Gnome-ish things, all to no avail. sad

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#4 2009-01-21 12:00:21

ninian
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Re: Help! Desktop icons gone, no right click ... and Nautilus crashes!

Uh-oh, seems like this problem could go wider than I thought. There's a fairly lengthy thread on the Ubuntu forums which smells the same, for example:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=42 =>

Re: Desktop icons disappear
Got it! I can get a crash with this:

Code:

mkdir ~/test
cp /usr/share/applications/compiz.desktop ~/test/
nautilus ~/test

I'm going to leave a comment in the bug.

And in fact, I was mucking around with .desktop files when I think my icons went AWOL.
Anyone else brave enough to risk losing their desktop to try this out?! sad

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