Nautilus loses history

[Nils Kassube]

rikona wrote:
> Saturday, November 5, 2016, 12:30:20 AM, Nils wrote:
> > rikona wrote:
> >> Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 11:01:59 PM, Nils wrote:
> >> > rikona wrote:
> >> It didn't uninstall some KDE apps I had installed earlier, but it
> >> did
> >> foul them up in multiple ways. BEFORE the desktop install, the KDE
> >> apps were reasonably well behaved in Unity - now they're a mess.
> >> The
> >> big problems are with the Ubuntu desktop. The kubuntu desktop
> >> install
> >> REALLY messed it up!
> >> 
> >> AFTER doing the uninstall, I have a few NEW problems I didn't see
> >> before - example - when I try to log on to another box via the LAN,
> >> kwallet asks for my password, which I never gave to it, [and,
> >> kwallet
> >> doesn't exist according to apt]. SO, without the password/wallet, I
> >> can't log in to the other box!
> > 
> > Hmm, that looks quite bad. How do you login to the other box - via
> > ssh?
> 
> From some file manage GUI. If it's a KDE FM, such as konq, then I get
> the wallet problem. This problem started after the UNinstall - it was
> NOT there after the kde desktop INstall. It seems like the uninstall
> messed up some kde files that are still needed by the KDE apps I
> installed originally under Ubuntu.
> 
> If I use the 'files' GUI, though, I can still log on by giving the
> other box user/pw - that still works.
> 
> > Anyway, if kwallet asks for a password, it must be there.
> 
> Not that I can find. It's not clear that the popup is kwallet. No
> matter what I do it just goes away with nothing happening. Might be
> something else that then calls kwallet. kwallet seems to be a
> 'complex' of several pgms.
> 
> > Either it is in the package kwalletmanager or in kde-runtime.
> 
> I don't have kwalletmanager, but kde-runtime may be there under
> user/share/lintian/overrides [strange sounding location?]. I just saw
> on the net that kwallet is supposedly part of kde-runtime, so I am
> stuck with it.

The package kde-runtime consists of many files, mostly libraries. I'm 
not sure what the file in /user/share/lintian/overrides is good for, but 
it is certainly not necessary for kwallet.

> > If it is the latter, it is probably a dependency of every KDE
> > application.
> 
> If that is what was changed, it might explain why I am seeing the
> wallet problem in kde apps.

I think the kde-runtime package (including kwallet) was installed with 
the first KDE application you installed - before you installed kubuntu-
desktop. At least konqueror depends on this package.

> > Colin Law wrote:
> >> Rikona stated previously that logging on as a different user did
> >> not
> >> help. If that is still the case then the problem is not with files
> >> in
> >> his home directory.  In that case re-installing Ubuntu (the
> >> complete
> >> OS) without re-formatting should solve the problem as it will
> >> re-install all non user specific config.
> > 
> > I thought the test with the other user resulted in the same nautilus
> > issue. But are the other new problems the same?
> 
> Yes - I just checked again and see the same problems with all users.
> 
> As an indication of how badly the Ubuntu desktop is currently messed
> up, when I went back to my usual user, the desktop came up completely
> messed up. No side icons, no top bar, and extra stuff on the screen. I
> was considering a reboot, but in trying a few things to get a
> terminal, or some way to reboot, it did mostly come back. Really
> needs fixing though...

Somehow I can't believe that so much damage is caused by adding (and 
later uninstalling) KDE packages to the Unity desktop. Could it be that 
there are other issues with your machine?

> > If they are the same for the other user I would agree with your
> > assumption.
> 
> It looks like the install/uninstall of kubuntu-desktop messed up some
> non-user config files related to kde apps. If I uninstall ALL the kde
> apps, it might still leave these there - a reinstall of konq, for
> example, did not fix it. So, even if I re-install Ubuntu to fix the
> Ubuntu part, which is broken and necessary to fix, I may still have
> the kde problems continuing. Does that sound right?
> 
> It's beginning to look like a complete reinstall with format may be
> necessary. What do you think?
> 
> It also sounds like I should NOT restore home from the latest backup,
> but use one from BEFORE the kde desktop install. Does that sound right
> as well?

Using that older backup of $HOME might indeed be useful. But before you 
reinstall, make sure that all your valuable data that have been created 
/ changed after that older backup are preserved.


Nils