nautilus crashing

i got gnome-session finally working on arch.But,when i click on places>computer,a window called bug buddy comes up asking me to submit bug report,prompting me for my email,etc.The following are the crash details:

Distribution: Unknown Gnome Release: 2.24.3 2009-01-20 (Archlinux) BugBuddy Version: 2.24.2

System: Linux 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 25 10:13:11 UTC 2009 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10503000 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

i can't open "computer".please help.

Run Nautilus in a terminal and post the output when it crashes.

Please see the screenshot.

as you can see the terminal output was follows:

[sonujha@arch ~]$ nautilus

(nautilus:2041): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported

(nautilus:2041): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor is not supported

(nautilus:2041): WARNING : Cannot connect to DBus Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

process 2041: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3298. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace 24859997-ed49-d909-4d8b7a9e-37a32393 is dumped

(bug-buddy:2045): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_construct: Could not obtain a handle to the Personal Addressbook Server with IID `OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Exchange_Connector_BookFactory:1.2'

[sonujha@arch ~]$

Looks like it is crashing because dbus isn't started. Have you run "sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start"?

yeah..........after doing #/etc/rc.d/hal start nautilus started working.thanks for that. but,will i have to do this everytime i boot up?can't i do something so that it is invoked on its own?

one more thing,i tried opening my partitions,but they didn't saying that i didn't have permissions to mount them.how do i solve this?

stonecoldjha said: yeah..........after doing #/etc/rc.d/hal start nautilus started working.thanks for that.

but,will i have to do this everytime i boot up?can't i do something so that it is invoked on its own?

Add hal to your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(... @hal ...)

The @ backgrounds the start of hal, lowering boot times.

stonecoldjha said: one more thing,i tried opening my partitions,but they didn't saying that i didn't have permissions to mount them.how do i solve this?

You have to have root permissions to mount volumes. Whether you do this as root, or with sudo is up to you.

but in ubuntu i can easily mount my partitions.i want it to be so.is that not possible?

i want all partitions to be mounted,so that i can use them once i double-click them.

stonecoldjha said: i want all partitions to be mounted,so that i can use them once i double-click them.

Add them to /etc/fstab.

as you can see all the partitions are there in my /etc/fstab:

#

/etc/fstab: static file system information

#

<file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

#/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 #/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 UUID=26c0405d-1389-4c95-af30-348bf932e930 swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=8fb2110a-e5f9-4185-bdbc-cfcf12bff661 / ext3 defaults,noatime,noadiratime 0 1 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 0 0 /dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0 /dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 0 /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 swap sw 0 0

stonecoldjha,

I'm really not trying to be funny or anything but could I suggest you go through all the steps in the beginners guide again. You really should not have as many problems as you are experiencing. If you follow the guide to the letter you will be a-ok :)

i could solve all the problems i encountered so far.now,there remains only one,and that is making my partitions automount when i log in as a non-root user.please,this is the last problem i suppose

stonecoldjha said: i could solve all the problems i encountered so far.now,there remains only one,and that is making my partitions automount when i log in as a non-root user.please,this is the last problem i suppose

Try putting "user" or "auto" under the options column.

Auto will automatically mount said partitions at boot. User will allow any user to manually mount said partitions without root or sudo access.

even this did not work.

i double-clicked on my 31.5 GB NTFS partition,and it did not mount,but,when i clicked "details",it said that the mountpoint /media/sda1 did not exist.likewise,the mount points of all other partitions do not exist as per the details i get on trying to open them.

even the terminal output reveals that:

[sonujha@arch ~]$ sudo mount /media/sda1 Password: mount: mount point /media/sda1 does not exist [sonujha@arch ~]$

but,i have the same mount points existing for my ubuntu installation(in fact i copied the contents off the fstab of ubuntu into the fstab of arch expecting to automount).now,how do i change mountpoints and how?

stonecoldjha said: even the terminal output reveals that:

[sonujha@arch ~]$ sudo mount /media/sda1 Password: mount: mount point /media/sda1 does not exist [sonujha@arch ~]$

but,i have the same mount points existing for my ubuntu installation(in fact i copied the contents off the fstab of ubuntu into the fstab of arch expecting to automount).now,how do i change mountpoints and how?

You have to make those mount points. Remember that Arch isn't Ubuntu. It's not going to do all of the "work" for you.

At your command line:

mkdir /media/sda1

Repeat this for all of the filesystems you want to mount.

Your mount command is also wrong. Should read something like this:

mount -t <filesystem type> /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

You will have to make all of the mountpoints by hand, but you should only need to manually mount the filesystems once. Adding "auto" to /etc/fstab should take care of that in the future.

thanks,now it works after i created the mountpoints.thank you,very much.