using right click menu in dropbox folder crashed caja about caja-dropbox HOT 18 CLOSED

I am having the same problem. When I right-click on a file in my dropbox folder and click on properties, all instances of caja crash when I close the properties box--even if I make no changes to any of the file's properties. The properties option in the caja context menu does not crash caja when I use it in non-dropbox folders.

I use Linux Mint 13 64-bit with MATE 1.6. My package versions are caja 1.6.1-4.1+precise, dropbox 1.6.0, and caja-dropbox 0.7.1-3+precise

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wftomlin is having the exact same problem with shared folders. See his post here: http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1871&p=6289#p6289

This suggests that the problem is with the way caja handles both shared folders and the dropbox folder. Therefore, my guess is that caja 1.6.1-4.1 (or whatever package handles caja's "file properties box") is the culprit--dropbox and caja-dropbox are probably both innocent.

@NiceandGently Have you made any progress fixing this bug?

Since the bug affects shared files as well, I will report it as a caja issue.

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i'm using arch linux and can reproduce the error with everything at the latest version. there is some serious problem between dropbox and caja. for example: as already known all caja-instances crash when clicking on a item in the context menu and the other thing is that dropbox crashes when i double click on the symbol or click on the "recently changed files" items ... it crashes when it tries to open caja...so the communication between them is really messed up... is there any progress so far ?

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i could create a backtrace.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49862637/Mate-desktop/Bugs/backtrace-caja

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I use Ubuntu 12.04 with MATE 1.6 and when I right-click on any file in my dropbox folder, all instances of caja crash. My system is fully updated. I rely heavily on Dropbox and this is a total deal breaker. I will stick with MATE if I can figure out how to completely replace caja with nautilus (+ nautilus-dropbox) or nemo (+ nemo-dropbox). Otherwise, I will use a different DE until this problem is fixed.

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@revemulo
Seems you issue is different, using the context menu and the intrgrated dropbox commands works well here. Caja crashed here only if i closed properties on a dropbox folder.
@julian-carpenter
Crash if using double-click on a dropbox folder is a gvfs issue. I had this issue too in fedora 20 with gvfs-1.17.x
But updating to gvfs-1.18.1 fixed this issue here.
Other fedora release which use gvfs-1.16.3 (fedora 19) or gvfs-1.14.2 (fedora 18) doesn't have this issue.

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@NiceandGently
thanks for the heads up. arch is indeed using gvfs 1.16 in their repos .... 1.18 is in testing. i will report back when updated.

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@NiceandGently My problem is exactly as you describe: The crash is after I close the properties window of any file in my dropbox folder. Sorry for being sloppy with my description of the problem--it's just that 99% of the time that I use the context menu it's to see the file's properties.

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This commit fix the issue for me.
mate-desktop/caja@3512eb9

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Can't wait to try it! I'm trying to compile mate-file-manager but get stuck at the missing dependency mate-desktop-2.0 (I have version 1.6.0 but need 1.7.1, which I can't find anywhere).

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If you compile from git you need to use the 1.6 branch.
git branch -a
git checkout -b 1.6 origin/1.6

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NiceandGently,
Thanks for the tip. Using the 1.6 branch I was able to compile, build, and install. However, now the Dropbox badge icons and context menu entries are gone. caja-dropbox is installed, obviously. Frustrating. Guess I'll just wait to update caja through the repository.

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hmm, can you post your configure flags?

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I didn't use any. After I had all the dependencies installed, I just did
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

When compiling deviates even just a little bit, it goes a bit above my head. I'll just wait to update caja through the repo. Thanks anyway.

On 10/06/2013 06:15 PM, Wolfgang Ulbrich wrote:

hmm, can you post your configure flags?

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try ./configure --prefix=/usr
I'm pretty shure the dropbox software doesn't find caja under /usr/local which is default if you don't use this flag.

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@NiceandGently:

Thank you so much for the tip. I restored my system from an image backup (with caja 1.6.1-4.1+precise and caja-dropbox 0.7.1-3+precise), then tried compiling mate-file-manager again from the top with the configure flag you recommended.

Everything works perfect now but, strangely, I did not have to install the new caja. This is exactly what I did:

1. downloaded the 1.6 branch of mate-file-manager to ~/Downloads folder and unzipped it
2. installed all the build dependencies: $ sudo apt-get install libmatedesktop-dev libxml2-dev libgail-dev gobject-introspection libunique-dev
3. went into the Downloads folder, renamed the unzipped mate-file-manager-1.6 folder to simply caja
4. opened a terminal in this caja folder
5. $ ./autogen.sh
6. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
7. built the .deb package without installing it: $ sudo checkinstall --install=no

Then, just to be paranoid, I decided that I would reinstall caja-dropbox and restart my computer before installing the new caja package that I just built. Magically, caja no longer crashes when I close the Properties box of a file in my dropbox. Go figure. I doubt that compiling and building the package had anything to do with it. My guess is that one of the packages that I installed in step 2 is responsible for the fix.

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@NiceandGently i can confirm that the double-click issue is in fact solved after upgrading gvfs to 1.18 !

when will this fix for the context menu be available in the mate arch repos, any infos on that ?
thanks for the good work !

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Julian,

This fixed the issue for me, without making any changes to caja or
having to wait for the fixed caja to make it into the repo:

1. Install the following five packages: libmatedesktop-dev libxml2-dev libgail-dev
   gobject-introspection libunique-dev
2. Reinstall caja-dropbox
3. Restart

Thanks NiceandGently and Stefano! Linux rocks with MATE. Now I have my
perfect desktop and can sail off into the sunset haha

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