Description of problem: A click on a "Computer" desktop icon, or equivalent operations from an icon menu, brings an alert with the following: Couldn't display "computer:///". There is no application installed for this file type and that is the end of it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.21.1-2.fc9 How reproducible: always
I'm seeing the same here, and it seems like this is related to other issues like being unable to drag drive or folder icons like "Computer" or "Trash" across the desktop.
same here....as per the comment of Joachim, I add also same problem with DVD...
What happens when you do the following in terminal? $ gnomevfs-ls computer:///
On my machine it prints (modulo mangling by bugzilla): Filesystem.desktop (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444 Network.desktop (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444 CD-RW%2FDVD%C2%B1RW%20Drive.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444 Floppy%20Drive.drive (Regular, application/x-desktop) size 0 mode 0444
This is being worked on. gvfs doesn't have a computer:// implementation yet
give me a workaround.
Fixed after upgrading to nautilus-2.21.2-1.fc9 plus gvfs-0.1.1-1.fc9 and glib2-2.15.1-1.fc9. Dragging drive/folder icons across the desktop is also possible again.
also glib2-devel should be upgraded otherwise some dependencies problems.....
Installing nautilus-2.21.2-1.fc9, and other related updates, had really curious effects. "Computer" window did open but after clicking in it on an icon which claimed to belong to CD I got the following alert: Couldn't display "computer:///CD-RW%5CDVD%C2%B1RW%20Drive.drive". There is no application installed for this file type After this alert was acked the whole nautilus promptly crashed, taking with it all its windows and icons, and stayed that way on subsequent re-logins to new sessions. Luckily a removal of the whole old accumulated ~/.nautilus/ tree before an attempt to login once more apparently solved that one. Icons for removable media are still "generic" although media are auto-mounted and picking up "Eject" or "Unmount Volume" from an icon menu _on a desktop_ does what is expected. This is not the case if I am trying the same action on corresponding icons in a "Computer" window. That results in the following: - all nautilus provided icons and windows vanish from a desktop - nautilus apparently restarts and restores icons and opens, the only one, window showing my home directory (there was one, but "Computer", nautilus window open at the beginning) - media which I attempted to unmount/eject are still there and a corresponding, generic, icon appears on a desktop Also on one try I got an alert telling me that only root can unmount my CD but typing 'eject' in a terminal window unmounted and ejected that CD without any further fuss. Boggles ...
I did not want to even try to install a FC9 nautilus to fix this problem so I decided to try something less drastic.... I reinstalled the existing version of nautilus!!! I when to my nearby YUM repository, located the FC8 version of nautilus (same as what is currently installed, no upgrades for it as yet), and downloaded that RPM. I then re-installed it... rpm -Uhv --replacepkgs nautilus-2.20.0-6.fc8.i386.rpm Logout, Login and hey my nautilus was working again. file://home/... was usable, as was all the links in computer:// and preview icons was being generated again. this was the simplist fix I have yet had to this problem, My setup was retained, including my 'open with' preferences. previously I have tried a lot of such fixes, from removing all my gnome 'dot' directories, to complete re-installs of the machines OS. Nautilus appears to be far to fragile in its file to action determination as this has now happened to me about half a dozen times in everythinf from FC2 to Ubuntu, and other linux setups. This is NOT a good thing for a supposed "desktop for computer newbies". Problems such as this should idealy be self correcting, not requiring hit or miss fixes such as I see ,and continue to see in my gogle searches on this problem.
The current version of rawhide nautilus, i.e. nautilus-2.21.90-1.fc9, seems to behave on a very basic level (while ignoring configuration flags) but, as comment #10 says, all of this feels really fragile and is an issue.
I'll declare this fixed now. Nautilus 2.22.0 has working computer:// support. Please file new bugs for possible remaining issues.