Bug#308517: icons often disappear from desktop / nautilus windows

[Jon Dowland]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

I frequently experience icons disappearing from nautilus windows
(including the desktop). This seems to happen when I do *something*,
e.g. maybe I've copied a file to/from a directory which is open in a
window via a terminal, but I cannot isolate any particular action.

..xsession-errors in my home directory contains a lot of nautilus-related
stuff, but none of it seems to be generated precicely when the problem
occurs:

(nautilus:6503): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated function.  User
modifications to the MIME database are no longer supported.

The window-contents is reinstated by reloading (CTRL+R) the view.

This bug could be the same as #241568, but I'm not sure - it sounded
like that was specifically something to do with file-roller?

I'd appreciate any help/advice on how to further diagnose this problem.

Yours, -- Jon Dowland


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-jmtd
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets             1:2.8.2-3           configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils   0.10-1              Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-6             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-21        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2            2.8.2-1             Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0              0.2.35-2            Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif10            0.6.9-6             library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail-common       1.8.4-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17            1.8.4-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2   2.8.3-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-3             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2       2.8.2-2             libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.2-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.8.1-3             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notificat 0.8-1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-7            GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data        2.8.2-2             data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info     0.16-3              FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library - runtime

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