Bug#860796: Now have a working Destkop

2017-05-10 Thread Ben Green
Today I decided to clean out my system as best I could and see if the problem still persisted. I ran: apt-get --purge remove `apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate$ | grep -v "not installed$" | awk -F: '{print $1}'` then repeated ran: apt-get --purge remove `deborphan` apt-get --purge a

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-28 Thread Ben Green
Hi, Some further observations. Here are two procedures on my system. I run these via the gnome-terminal: Procedure 1 === killall -SIGKILL nautilus killall -SIGKILL nautilus-desktop ps -ef | grep naut #confirm that no nautilus processes exist for the current session nautilus & naut

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-28 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Simon McVittie : On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 12:09:02 +0100, Ben Green wrote: Quoting Simon McVittie : > I speculate that in Ben's case, dbus-daemon might be selecting a file > manager that is broken in some way, such that it silently fails to > start up. Running "dbu

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Simon McVittie : I speculate that in Ben's case, dbus-daemon might be selecting a file manager that is broken in some way, such that it silently fails to start up. Running "dbus-monitor --session" while reproducing this bug might provide evidence for or against this. Well there's no

Bug#860796: No entries in journal or syslog

2017-04-25 Thread Ben Green
Hi, having had a looking journalctl and /var/log/syslog, I note that there is no output produced when clicking desktop icons. Cheers, Ben

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-25 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Jason Crain : On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:35:12AM +0100, Ben Green wrote: Desktop icons work fine for me just from selecting "Icons on Desktop" in gnome-tweak-tool. Do you have any other desktop environments installed, even if you aren't using them, like KDE, mat

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-20 Thread Ben Green
Quoting Michael Biebl : What desktop environment do you use? GNOME (rather than "GNOME Classic" or "GNOME on Wayland", which are also available).

Bug#860796: appears to be linked to the lack of a running "nautilus --gapplication-service"

2017-04-20 Thread Ben Green
FileManager1.service though does not appear to be present automatically in my user session. I can get my icons to work by manually executing "nautilus --gapplication-service" through a shell or via the ALT+F2 dialogue. Cheers, Ben Green

Bug#860796: nautilus: Nautilus does not lauch it's file browser when a desktop icon is clicked (or double clicked)

2017-04-20 Thread Ben Green
Package: nautilus Version: 3.22.3-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, This bug is present from boot accross all logins on both the systems I currently have at 'Stretch'. After double clicking a folder on the Gnome Desktop with desktop icons enabled, nothing happens. This began happening after

Bug#681087: gdm3 with black background

2014-09-02 Thread Ben Green
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:47:39 +0200 Jaakov wrote: > As for version 3.4.1-8 of gdm3 in wheezy, the bug is not reproducible on > my machine at the moment. However, I've heard of one more report for > another version of gdm3, so let us keep this bug report open. Though I've not experienced exactly

Bug#588302: liferea: Crashes with "Illegal Operation" when attempting to view feed items

2010-07-07 Thread Ben Green
Package: liferea Version: 1.6.3-1 Severity: important When viewing some of the feed items from certain feeds Liferea crashes. An example is the planet Debian feed: http://planet.debian.org/rss20.xml Running from the command line with --debug-all on then clicking on the recent feed item "James Mo