Nautilus doesn't load and gives GVFS-WARNING

Bug #1951075 reported by Jim Richards
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

After loading a cifs network drive on the command line, nautilus no longer loads and shows

(org.gnome.Nautilus:17319): GVFS-WARNING **: 20:32:43.301: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Timeout was reached. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

when run from the command line. This is not the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1935734 as I'm not trying to open as root but as a non-privileged user.

This only started happening after upgrading to 21.10 recently. I tried upgrading gvfs to 1.48.x though a ppa and the update didn't resolve the issue. It was working in 21.04, so I assume downgrading gvfs

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 21.10
Release: 21.10

$ apt-cache policy nautilus gvfs
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:40.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:40.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:40.2-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gvfs:
  Installed: 1.47.91-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.47.91-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.47.91-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: nautilus 1:40.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-21.21-generic 5.13.18
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu71
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Nov 16 20:35:33 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-27 (1024 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-11-12 (4 days ago)

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Jim Richards (grumpy) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, could you give details on how you do the cifs mount, be specific if possible with example of configuration and cmd used so others can try to reproduce your setup.

It might also be useful to report to upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Jim Richards (grumpy) wrote :

I can reproduce this with

    sudo mount -t cifs -o noauto,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,nounix,noserverino,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0755,iocharset=utf8,vers=2.1 //192.168.1.1/backup/ /media/grumpy/brick

followed by running

    nautilus

The network drive is a USB hard disk attached to my router. It's formatted to NTFS.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Peter Sagerson (psagers) wrote :

I've been experiencing the same (intermittent) symptom on a relatively new install. It's hard to be sure, but I think I've resolved it by disabling keybase.

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Diogo José Domingues Regateiro (diogo-regateiro) wrote :

I can confirm the same intermittent issue and I also have Keybase installed. I don't recall having the issue prior to installing it.

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Sebastian Messmer (cryfs) wrote :

just ran into the same issue after an `apt upgrade`. Disabling keybase helped for me too, but there weren't any issues before the upgrade.

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aquatix (h-launchpad-aquariusoft-org) wrote :

I have exactly this issue, including not begin able to open file dialogs for opening files or saving files as. When I shut down Keybase, everything work again like expected.

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Joshua Robison (hoshi411) wrote :

I have exactly the same issue but keybase is not installed on my system.
I am running stock Ubuntu 22.04 .
This issue happened after I did apt dist-upgrade a couple of days ago (May 4th?).
I upgraded my system to 22.04 from 21.10 when 22.04 was publicly released.
I used the software-updater to do the upgrade.
Since then I had not had any issues at all.
This issue only started after my apt dist-upgrade on around May 4th.
Due to this issue I cannot run Atom as well.

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Joshua Robison (hoshi411) wrote :

I get this error when Atom crashes.

Just a bunch of "this is deprecated"
"
/usr/bin/atom: line 195: 16065 Killed nohup "$ATOM_PATH" --executed-from="$(pwd)" --pid=$$ "$@" > "$ATOM_HOME/nohup.out" 2>&1
(node:16144) Electron: Loading non-context-aware native module in renderer: '/usr/share/atom/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/superstring/build/Release/superstring.node'. This is deprecated, see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397.
"

Atom not opening my project folder was what led me to realize that Nautilus was also not opening.

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Joshua Robison (hoshi411) wrote :

I was able to open nautilus after turning WiFi off. Atom also was then able to open the project folder.

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Jim Richards (grumpy) wrote :

I'd forgotten about this until now. It's been working for me lately. I don't know what changed apart from updating to 22.10 last year.

$ apt-cache policy nautilus gvfs
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:43.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic/main amd64 Packages
gvfs:
  Installed: 1.50.2-2
  Candidate: 1.50.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.50.2-2 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu kinetic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Marietto (marietto2008) wrote :

When I invoke thunar from my arm 32 bit chromeboo I have this error :

(thunar:2313): GVFS-WARNING **: 13:49:56.399: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Timeout was reached. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

I'm using ubuntu 22.04 for armhf and I'm connecting to the arm chromebook via ssh forwarding. Instead,
thunar works if I run it directly on the chromebook.

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