Bug#516999: nautilus: Launcher Properties dialog on NFS closes when you select the Launcher tab

[John Pearson]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.20.0-7
Severity: normal


We use NFS-mounted /home directories; the Properties dialog for desktop
launchers is broken for us.  We see the same behaviour using both NFS3 
and NFS4.

If you select Properties for a desktop launcher and choose the 
"Launcher" tab, the dialog closes after a delay of a second or so.
All indications are that there is no crash or error per se (no 
processes die, nothing's written to .xsession-errors), the dialog just
closes.

The same thing happens to a launcher that's copied from the Desktop 
folder to the home directory itself, or to a subdirectory under it - 
you can open a Nautilus browser window to view "Home" (or navigate 
there via the "Filesystem"), open the Properties dialog for the 
launcher, select the Launcher tab and the dialog closes.

Oddly, this bug does NOT affect NFS mounts in general - as a test I 
mounted a second instance of server:/home at /mnt using the same mount 
options and was able to navigate to it and display the launcher's 
Properties dialog, and select and edit the Launcher tab without any 
problems.

We've also encountered this bug on Ubuntu 8.04, which uses Nautilus 
2.22.5.1 (Ubuntu bug #224642), but not under earlier versions (e.g., 
Ubuntu 6.06, which uses Nautilus 2.14.3).  While it's not serious in 
the greater scheme of things, it is a potential "show stopper" for 
our NFS client desktops that's blocking their migration to a newer 
release, be it Debian or Ubuntu.


John.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils        0.15-1         Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.22.2.1-2   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.20-2       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.22.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.22.0-1       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.6.4-7        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libeel2-2.20              2.20.0-7       Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                   0.2.36-3       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexempi3                2.0.1-1        library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                 0.6.16-2.1     library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail-common            1.22.3-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail18                 1.22.3-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.22.0-1       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.2-1      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.6-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.22.3-2       Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.20.1.1-1     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.20.1.1-1     A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.20.1.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.22.0-5     GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.12.11-4      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1    2.20.0-7       libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.13-0.1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.20.5-3       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2                2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1               2.0.65-5       SELinux shared libraries
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.9-1          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtrackerclient0         0.6.6-2        metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.1.5-2      X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.32.dfsg-5  GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data             2.20.0-7       data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info          0.30-2         FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-data          2008.11.27     Application Installer Data Files
ii  desktop-base              5.0.3          common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject                     2.1.5+deb1-4   ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra        1:2.22.0-5     GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
ii  librsvg2-common           2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  nautilus-cd-burner        2.20.0-1       CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  synaptic                  0.62.1+nmu1    Graphical package manager


Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                      2.22.3-2        Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]      2.22.2-4~lenny1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
pn  fam                      <none>          (no description available)
pn  totem | mp3-decoder      <none>          (no description available)
pn  tracker                  <none>          (no description available)

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