FS#11496 - Nautilus GVFS connections are broken outside of gnome-session

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Monday, 15 September 2008, 23:16 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 08:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Nautilus virtual filesystems are inaccessible if the user's session is not gnome-session (e.g. openbox-gnome, blackbox, xfce, etc.) This affects all virtual connections including ssh:, smb:, ftp:, burn:, computer:, etc.

Typical error messages are:

Nautilus cannot handle sftp: locations.
Nautilus cannot handle burn: locations.
Couldn't find "<insert path here>" Please check the spelling and try again.


Pkg versions:

* gvfs 0.2.5-2 & gvfs 0.2.5-3
* glib2 2.18.0-1
* nautilus 2.22.5.1-1


Steps to reproduce:

* Launch a session other than gnome-session (such as openbox-session)
* Open Nautilus
* Attempt to connect to a virtual filesystem
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 08:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jon Kapla (Xappe) - Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 00:11 GMT
It seems that Nautilus/gvfs need dbus. I fixed this issue on my openbox setup by adding the following to my autostart.sh:

# D-bus
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

So, try running nautilus with "dbus-launch nautilus" and see if that fixes things.

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