nautilus can't open folder as root

Bug #1935734 reported by Norbert
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gvfs (Ubuntu)
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Latest daily of imprish

Error message in terminal:

(org.gnome.Nautilus:6242): GVFS-WARNING **: 09:06:02.331: The peer-to-peer connection failed: Verbindung ist gescheitert: Keine Berechtigung. Falling back to the session bus. Your application is probably missing --filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd privileges.

Window:

GDBus.Error.org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed:Unix process subject does not have uid set
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu67
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'260'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(1446, 704)'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency', 'starred', 'detailed_type']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Alpha amd64 (20210709)
Package: nautilus 1:3.38.2-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-11.11-generic 5.13.0
Tags: third-party-packages impish wayland-session
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-11-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote :
description: updated
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Chris Guiver (guiverc) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1935734

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

(I realize you know this, but it fills details in the bug report, provides the ISO date (ie. daily) etc)

Some additional details (explanation) may also be handy, eg. I had the current Ubuntu daily running on the box besides me, and used `sudo nautilus` to open a session & didn't encounter any issues. It maybe I didn't do what you did, but few details were provided.

(I'm also running on a box used for QA-test installs so no real data files to explore)

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected impish third-party-packages wayland-session
description: updated
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Norbert (asterix52) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

apport information

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

apport information

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote : usr_lib_nautilus.txt

apport information

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote :

It is the extension nautilus-admin which doesn't work any more. You can right-click on a folder and choose "Open as Administrator". Or a file and "Edit as Administrator".

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Eduard (jongeduard) wrote :

I can confirm that I am experiencing this issue now with my Ubuntu Hirsute installation in VirtualBox.
I just ran all package updates it after not using this VM for a while.
After this I noticed it, because I wanted to do root access actions using GNOME Nautilus.

Not so long ago I had this same issue under XFCE on Arch Linux too, but that one got eventually fixed by updates, most likely including GVFS or something related.

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote :

same with nautilus 40.2 (imprish)

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Norbert (asterix52) wrote :
Norbert (asterix52)
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 1.48.1-2ubuntu2

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gvfs (1.48.1-2ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild to build packages with zstd compression.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:31:06 +0200

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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