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karm

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From: Cracow / Poland

Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 9

Nautilus have problem with opening paths other than /home

Hi,
I have strange problem with nautilus. When I want to open some path ie. /media/*some mounted device* or /tmp usign gnome-menu "Places" I see hourglass cursor for a while and then nothing happens. Only home would open with "Places" however typing nautilus path in console opens the specified path instantly. If I open /home and then go to desired place and next try to again open this path with "Places" menu it works.
How could I fix this issue?

Last edited by karm (2011-01-27 20:54:26)

whatshisname

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 163

Re: Nautilus have problem with opening paths other than /home

Hi,
I have strange problem with nautilus. When I want to open some path ie. /media/*some mounted device* or /tmp usign gnome-menu "Places" I see hourglass cursor for a while and then nothing happens. Only home would open with "Places" however typing nautilus path in console opens the specified path instantly. If I open /home and then go to desired place and next try to again open this path with "Places" menu it works.
How could I fix this issue?

What are the permissions on the folders you can't read?  Run "ls -l /media" and "ls -l /tmp" and post back here.

karm

Member

From: Cracow / Poland

Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 9

Re: Nautilus have problem with opening paths other than /home

Sorry for late reply I was not here for a while.
here are the permissions:

 /media
drwxrwx--- 1 root staff 8,0K 02-13 04:35 wd

 /
drwxrwxrwt  14 root root  20K 02-20 03:03 tmp

 /home
drwxr-xr-x 49 karm root  20K 02-19 21:07 karm

As I wrote before, only /home is opening corectly. It may be important that /media/wd is a mount point of an external usb hard drive. Does this ring some bells?

Regards,
karm

Last edited by karm (2011-02-20 02:13:48)

whatshisname

Member

Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 163

Re: Nautilus have problem with opening paths other than /home

Sorry for late reply I was not here for a while.
here are the permissions:

 /media
drwxrwx--- 1 root staff 8,0K 02-13 04:35 wd

Unless your user is part of the "staff" group, you wouldn't be ale to open "wd".

 /
drwxrwxrwt  14 root root  20K 02-20 03:03 tmp

Permissions are good here.  You should be able to open everything.  *But* if you want, issue a "chown root:users" on /tmp as root and see if that makes a difference.  (I'm assuming "users" is your default group.  It is for me on Arch.)

 /home
drwxr-xr-x 49 karm root  20K 02-19 21:07 karm

You own home so that is as it should be.

> As I wrote before, only /home is opening corectly. It may be important that /media/wd is a mount point of an external usb hard drive. Does this ring some bells?

>Regards,
>karm

I don't know if you're having a Gnome specific issue or not but I would play around with changing ownership of the problematic folders to your user and see if it makes a difference.