I try to extract bz2 file in Nautilus and get the same message. Evrithing works with tar -xjvf in Terminal
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1237179 Title: file-roller can't extract a compressed file as normal user Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: As normal (administrator) user file-roller cannot extract files, it complains with a message box saying (translated from spanish) Owner can't be stablished: Operation not allowed. I can extract as superuser, nevertheless, changing the owner using nautilus as superuser crashes nautilus. Once, nautilus said the user logged in didn't exist, I couldn't reproduce this last message anymore. using cat /etc/passwd shows the user with a correct ID. I cannot be sure if the problem is about file-roller or is a user administration problem ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: file-roller 3.10.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-11.17-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 8 22:11:32 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-04 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131004) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_VE:es PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=es_VE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: file-roller UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1237179/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp