cannot open nautilus with gksu

[mc4man]

it's working ok , off and on .. and after todays update .. but then this behaviour fist started I noticed an apport box in the top left hand corner after updates from 3 days ago. Still persistent. I go to report it an it goes nowhere.

Not sure if it has any thing related to original bug.

Apport reporting to launchpad for crashers has been disabled for 14.04, now they go to some db
This report is a catchall for such issues (it doesn't mention gksudo nautilus but many of the dupes do
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1286766

After being without any ubuntu install for several days now have a 14.04 i386 where as mentioned gksudo nautilus initially failed, now is ok.
If the amd64 image from today will install then I'll start over with that & maybe see exactly what enables it to work again.

[ventrical]

Apport reporting to launchpad for crashers has been disabled for 14.04, now they go to some db
This report is a catchall for such issues (it doesn't mention gksudo nautilus but many of the dupes do
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1286766

After being without any ubuntu install for several days now have a 14.04 i386 where as mentioned gksudo nautilus initially failed, now is ok.
If the amd64 image from today will install then I'll start over with that & maybe see exactly what enables it to work again.

I am not sure if this is of any help but it first started after I tried an experiment to try and drag and drop some executable files from /nautilus/filesystem/firefox/firefox. I was just seeing if I could find a way to past an executable file (shortcut) to the desktop. After doing this it told me the <firefox> link was broken so I deleted it and then tried gksu nautilus and that's when it started to deny access. It's working now though. <amd64> I just did a fresh install i386 on Dell Latitude so I'll check it there too.

[ventrical]

Fresh install from yesterdays 32bit .iso Ubuntu..

gksu nautilus

busted.

-Latitude-D810:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV370/M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI6515 Cardbus Controller
03:01.5 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCI6515 SmartCard Controller
03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
annadip@annadip-Latitude-D810:~$

[ventrical]

Seems what solves it is just enter :

sudo nautilus

it will not ask for password but will bring up nautilus... then you can quit and gksu nautilus will work.

[cariboo]

DId you document what you did to break gksu?

[ventrical]

DId you document what you did to break gksu?

Make startup USB with SDC from trusty-desktop-i386.iso 2014/04/14.
Install trusty to i386 form factor (this case a Dell Latitiude).
Remove USB pen drive/reboot.
sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Use Ubuntu Software Center to download ubuntu-unrestricted-extras
reboot

Login: Ctrl+Alt+t and enter-
gksu nautilus

apt will remind you that gksu is not installed.

sudo apt-get install gksu

gksu nautilus..... authentication window asks for password- Enter PSWD> (at this point a blank pop-up comes ups then it dies ,window closes, and leaves the usual error message in terminal.) Ctrl +c and exit gksu.

Run:

sudo nautilus

Works beautiful. Close nautilus window. Then:

gksu nautilus

Works as normal .

The scary thing about this is that after the gksu first fail and then you try 'sudo nautilus' it does not ask for password so I would have to ask if this bug is a security risk.

Regards..

[mc4man]

The scary thing about this  is that after the gksu first fail and then you try 'sudo nautilus' it does not ask for password so I would have to ask if this bug is a security risk.

If that was the same terminal then you were already authenticated

I think the failure of gksudo nautilus is likely par for the new install course. I'm going to try once again to get back a 14.04 amd64 install so will see if it occurs there, assuming it does install.
(running sudo nautilus, while not advised, could be ok once or twice. Just make sure that root doesn't own any files in your home directory.

[ventrical]

The scary thing about this  is that after the gksu first fail and then you try 'sudo nautilus' it does not ask for password so I would have to ask if this bug is a security risk.

If that was the same terminal then you were already authenticated

I think the failure of gksudo nautilus is likely par for the new install course. I'm going to try once again to get back a 14.04 amd64 install so will see if it occurs there, assuming it does install.
(running sudo nautilus, while not advised, could be ok once or twice. Just make sure that root doesn't own any files in your home directory.

I assumed this. (already authenticated)

Also, I understand about the 'sudo nautilus'. Most of my installs are experimental and I understand the risk. Thanks for your reminders

[ventrical]

The scary thing about this  is that after the gksu first fail and then you try 'sudo nautilus' it does not ask for password so I would have to ask if this bug is a security risk.

If that was the same terminal then you were already authenticated

I think the failure of gksudo nautilus is likely par for the new install course

I am going to assume that the 'gksu' program has a bug.

[ventrical]

I just hopped over to another machine .

ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 HECI Controller (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HO (ICH8DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101/6102 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b1)
07:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$

This is 64bit install and the bug is back there again. I opened terminal, run gksu nautilus a window opens and closes and then:

ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$ gksu nautilus

(nautilus:2061): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from 'GtkMessageDialog' to 'NautilusWindow'
**
ERROR:nautilus-window.c:2116:nautilus_window_get_slots: assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_WINDOW (window))
ventrical@ventrical-desktop:~$