[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
Fixed in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data- ubuntu/13.10.1 ** Changed in: app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- 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: Fix Released 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/app-install-data-ubuntu -- 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
Thomas, the bug did re-occur? Or do you refer to the not fixed version of session-installer? -- 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
Thanks, I've just run into this as well. For reference, the bug appeared because I made PyXDG stricter about parsing .desktop files. I'm aware that the break is somewhat annoying, but I think it's ultimately better to throw an exception than to return a potentially incorrect/incomplete object. -- 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
** Branch linked: lp:sessioninstaller -- 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 Committed 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
Fixed in lp:session-installer r139 and r140. ** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- 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 Committed 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
** Branch linked: lp:~aptdaemon-developers/sessioninstaller/ubuntu-saucy -- 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 Committed 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/saucy-proposed/sessioninstaller -- 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 Committed 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
This bug was fixed in the package sessioninstaller - 0.20+bzr141-0ubuntu1 --- sessioninstaller (0.20+bzr141-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low * Update Vcs-* headers for saucy branch. * New upstream snapshot: - Includes 03_gstreamer_1.0.patch, 04_dont_double_defer.patch, 05_parent_process_name.patch, drop these. - Don't crash on parsing broken .desktop files. (LP: #1190097) -- Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:50:45 +0200 ** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
Thanks Adam, trying to figure out what is happening there I looked at a dbus-monitor log and saw that: error sender=:1.444 - dest=:1.438 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.xdg.Exceptions.ParsingError reply_serial=158 string Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/defer/__init__.py, line 489, in _inline_callbacks result = gen.send(result) File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sessioninstaller/core.py, line 1030, in _install_mime_types path)) File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/DesktopEntry.py, line 33, in __init__ self.parse(filename) File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/DesktopEntry.py, line 42, in parse IniFile.parse(self, file, [Desktop Entry, KDE Desktop Entry]) File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xdg/IniFile.py, line 81, in parse raise ParsingError(Invalid line: + line, filename) ParsingError: ParsingError in file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/workrave:workrave.desktop', Invalid line: - RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) oraz wspomaga rekonwalescencj\u0119 removing '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/workrave:workrave.desktop' fixes the issue I'm adding app-install-data-ubuntu (which ships the broken .desktop), workrave (where the original .desktop comes from) and sessioninstaller (which shouldn't probably stop working because one file has parsing errors) to the affected components ** Also affects: app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: app-install-data-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- 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: Triaged 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
in fact there is already a bug for workrave, bug #1176200, I'm going to use that one -- 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: Triaged 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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1190097] Re: Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open files of a given type
** Branch linked: lp:~seb128/sessioninstaller/handle-parsing-errors -- 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: Triaged 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
