Bug 2359532

Summary: F42 Cosmic iso comes without xdg-user-dirs installed and so it doesn't create the default user directories
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Geraldo Simião <geraldo.simiao.kutz>
Component: cosmic-sessionAssignee: Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 42CC: cosmic-sig, kparal, rust-sig, ryanbrue.dev
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: CommonBugs, Desktop, UserExperience
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/common-issue/148709
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screenshot from cosmic file manager at fresh install
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Description Geraldo Simião 2025-04-14 15:43:36 UTC 
Running a live-session using Fedora-COSMIC-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso and installing it to disk, we end up with a system without the default users directories (Downloads, Music, Video...).

After further investigation this turned to be the result of not having the package xdg-user-dirs installed (its not present at the live-iso and its not installed at the fresh installed system).

After installing this package and rebooting the system all went fine and the users dirs are correctly added.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download the F42 Cosmic iso and install it
2.open the cosmic file manager
Actual Results:
See an empty window, without any default user directory 

Expected Results:
See cosmic file manager populated with the habitual user directories

Additional Information:
cosmic-session-1.0.0~alpha.6-1.fc42

Fedora-COSMIC-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
Comment 1 Geraldo Simião 2025-04-14 15:45:49 UTC 
Created attachment 2084924 [details]
screenshot from cosmic file manager at fresh install

It have only the Download directory, because I already used Firefox to download a test jpg file from the web.
Comment 2 Geraldo Simião 2025-04-14 15:47:25 UTC 
Created attachment 2084925 [details]
screenshot from cosmic file manager after installing xdg-user-dirs

After running sudo dnf install xdg-user-dirs and rebooting the system, the default dirs showed up at the file manager.
Comment 3 Geraldo Simião 2025-04-15 01:18:47 UTC 
This upgrade fix the issue
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2698796
Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2025-04-16 12:27:15 UTC 
Common Issue description:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/common-issue/148709
Comment 5 Kamil Páral 2025-04-16 12:27:38 UTC 
This seems fixed now:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-42624b25ff