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gpdas

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 15

Nautilus crash in gnome3.8 as root

Hi,

When I try to run nautilus as user and set the permission on a file, it crashes (after setting the correct permission). My problem sounds very similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162090 , but I do not have any problem starting nautilus. I tried all solutions suggested there. Nothing has worked for my problem. I am using GNOME3.8. I know I can do it on terminal, but if this is reproducable for others it can be an upstream bug.

I tried to have a look at the coredump, but didn't get a clue how to look for info in that. i dumped the systemd coredump to another file.

How to reproduce:
1. sudo nautilus
2. get the properties of a file and then permission tab.
3. set the owner as one user and then set it back to original user.

Error:
[root@gpdarch ~]# nautilus /home/gpdas/

(nautilus:1135): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(nautilus:1135): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_spinner_start: assertion `GTK_IS_SPINNER (spinner)' failed

(nautilus:1135): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_timed_wait_stop: assertion `wait != NULL' failed
**
ERROR:nautilus-properties-window.c:1837:schedule_owner_change_timeout: assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file))
Aborted (core dumped)

I tried all below, but none of this has helped.
1. run sudo nautilus
2. gksu nautilus
3. after export DISPLAY=:0.0
4. logged in as root from gdm and tried files directly and from terminal.
5. installed gnome-polkit

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Re: Nautilus crash in gnome3.8 as root

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152370

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gpdas

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 15

Re: Nautilus crash in gnome3.8 as root

thanks sistematico, but that didn't work.

tried that for both user and root. No changes. still crashes in changing the owner back. user -> root -> user. in fact the root -> user change causes the crash, the other one works perfectly.

removing ~/.local it worked for changing default applications, if the user (root) is the owner of the file. otherwise it crashes with the same error.

there is a message in a dialog, but it goes away in a fraction of second. i could just say it said something about the ownership.

Last edited by gpdas (2013-05-04 10:19:47)

gpdas

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 15

Re: Nautilus crash in gnome3.8 as root

I can confirm this happens in fresh install as well, ie fresh arch install and direct gnome 3.8 install.

gpdas

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 15

Re: Nautilus crash in gnome3.8 as root

reported upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700116