The issue was fixed sometime back during regular updates provided by the Update Manager. I am now able to start Nautilus as root on Ubuntu 14.04..
The status of the bug should be changed. I am not doing it myself, since I am a bit unexperienced and not sure if bugs that are fixed during regular updates, how are they tagged in the Status field. -- 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/1309254 Title: Nautilus crashes when starting as root on Ubuntu 14.04 Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Nautilus crashes everytime I try to invoke it as root. Following are the Error messages that I get in terminal: aditya@aditya-desktop:~$ sudo -i root@aditya-desktop:~# nautilus (nautilus:6319): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files (nautilus:6319): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from 'GtkMessageDialog' to 'NautilusWindow' ** ERROR:nautilus-window.c:2116:nautilus_window_get_slots: assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_WINDOW (window)) Aborted (core dumped) I am using a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Apr 18 04:43:43 2014 GsettingsChanges: InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-17 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: This ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_IN:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_IN SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1309254/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
