Comment 1 for bug 850543

This error is a result of the lack of the file user-dirs.dirs, which usually resides in ~/.config/. This file can be created manually, but it is automatically created by the program xdg-user-dirs-update which is included in the package xdg-user-dirs.

Refer to:
http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/xdg-user-dirs-update/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Tips