I just upgraded from 9.10 (amd64) to 10.04, and then immediately from 10.04 to 10.10. I have this same problem:
When I go to Places > Home Folder > right-click on Public > Permissions tab and try to change any of the "File Access" drop-downs, they all immediately revert to "---". I have tried using 'chmod dane:dane /home/dane/Public -R' and 'chown a+rwx /home/dane/Public -R' with no effect. I have also tried running nautilus with 'sudo nautilus /home/dane', and have not been able to change the file permissions. The "Allow executing file as program" box is highlighted (solid orange color), but cannot be checked or un-checked. I will try to attach a screenshot of this. As a result of this, I think, I am unable to use any nautilus-share functionality that requires a change in permissions, such as "Allow others to create and delete files in this folder" and "Guest access (for people without a user account)". Whenever I try to use such an option, nautilus entirely crashes (desktop icons flicker and then come back, and all folder windows close). I have tried purging (sudo aptitude purge ...) and re-installing samba, samba-common, samba-common-bin, nautilus- share, nautilus-gksu, nautilus-open-terminal, nautilus-sendto, and nautilus-sendto-empathy; as well as purging, killing nautilus (killall nautilus), starting nautilus, and trying to change permissions without reinstalling those packages. None of this has worked. I have also tried reinstalling (sudo aptitude reinstall ...) nautilus, nautilus-data, nautilus-actions, and nautilus-scripts-manager (then killing and restarting nautilus), but none of this has worked, either. I have checked my fstab configuration, and my / partition (on which /home/dane resides) does not have any unusual mount options. I'll attach this as well. I would REALLY like to get this functionality back (which I had in 9.10). Any suggestions? Need any more information? Thanks for your interest in this bug. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot of the problem" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/195630/+attachment/1731863/+files/Screenshot.png -- Can't change permissions on a folder with nautilus. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
