It seems this was fixed with app-install-data (13.10.1). https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/app-install- data-ubuntu/trusty/revision/101#menu-data/workrave:workrave.desktop
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1190097 Title: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type Status in “app-install-data-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “sessioninstaller” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I'm running Nautilus 3.6.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy). When I double click a file in Nautilus and there is no application installed which can open the file, Nautilus will try to auto-install an application but the auto-install hangs. Specifically, for example: 1. Make sure that Gnumeric is not installed on your system. 2. Create a file with extension .gnumeric and double click it in Nautlius. Nautilus will report: Could not display "finance.gnumeric". There is no application installed for "Gnumeric spreadsheet" files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file? Click Yes. You'll now see a dialog that looks like this: Searching for suitable software to open files Files requires to install [sic] software to open files of the following file type: Gnumeric spreadsheet The dialog has a progress bar, which will briefly pulse and then stop. You can now only press Cancel. A glance at the code shows that Nautilus is trying to send a DBus message to PackageKit to perform the install. There are apparently some PackageKit components on my system (e.g. libpackagekit-glib2-14 is installed), but something is not working. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu/+bug/1190097/+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
