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    Unhappy Desktop icons and open windows disappear when opening windows share

    On Ubuntu 9.04 when I click on my Places>bookmarks to open my windows share (smb://192.168.etc...), all of my open windows (nautilus, firefox, gimp, anything) will disappear along with my desktop icons.

    I can open up new windows, even for those programs that disappeared. (firefox, nautilus, etc.).

    The problem seems similar to this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...dows+disappear

    However, my programs are not crashing. PS command still shows they are running.

    I've also tried this solution, but it didn't help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...06&postcount=6

    This only happens when I browse to a windows share.

    Please help!

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    Re: Desktop icons and open windows disappear when opening windows share

    I spoke to soon.

    Nautilus IS crashing. And it's only Nautilus and my desktop icons that are now disappearing.

    When I run Nautilus, it runs with the --no-desktop option.

    I should also mention that I can browse media like external USB drives.

    Also, I just tested connecting to an FTP server. That also crashes Nautilus.

    GNOME Commander browses these filesystems without problem.

    There is also no longer a context menu when right clicking on the desktop.

    Compiz is not installed.
    Last edited by ubducted; February 1st, 2010 at 05:37 PM.

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    Re: Desktop icons and open windows disappear when opening windows share

    Well, I've learned more about the problem:

    $nautilus 2> error.txt
    Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension
    Initializing nautilus-clamscan extension
    Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
    Segmentation fault
    $

    The error.txt reads:

    Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
    Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.


    ** (nautilus:10393): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported

    (nautilus:10393): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_info_get_name: assertion `G_IS_FILE_INFO (info)' failed

    ** (nautilus:10393): WARNING **: Got GFileInfo with NULL name in smb://192.168.15.17/volume_2/, ignoring. This shouldn't happen unless the gvfs backend is broken.

    sys:1: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

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    There are plenty of threads and a bug report about the problem, but I haven't found any solution.

    This supposed solution did not work: http://forums.techarena.in/operating...ms/1267752.htm

    Nor did this one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1394101&page=2

    This thread may be onto something: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=825965

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