Public bug reported:
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.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
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?
+ 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
- File requires to install [sic] software to open files of the following file
type: Gnumeric spreadsheet
+ 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.
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Title:
Nautilus tries but fails to auto-install applications needed to open
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