trash is gone, cannot mount hard drives, error messages...

Asked by SuzCreamChees

Since yesterday, the trash can has disappeared. Whenever I try to add it back to the panel nothing happens. Also, neither one of my external hard drives will mount. Then, I am getting error messages whenever I try to go to Places>Computer; Places>CD/DVD Creator; Places>Network.
The error messages I am getting say: Couldn't display "computer:". Nautilus cannot handle computer: locations.
Couldn't display "burn:///". Nautilus cannot handle burn: locations.
Couldn't display "network:". Nautilus cannot handle network: locations.
I am using a newly installed version of Ubuntu Hardy that I upgraded to from the update manager. Please, let me know what other information I can give you to help me with this problem. Thank you.

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said :
#1

Can you post the outputs of doing the following:-
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus
sudo dpkg --configure -a
and
sudo apt-get install -f

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Jeff Bronks (jeffb-dsl) said :
#2

Please excuse me for butting in, but I have exactly the same problem as Suz. Perhaps my reply will be of use to you while you are waiting for a response from Suz. I entered the commands listed by Pramod, and here are the outputs:

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jeff@WOC-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus
[sudo] password for jeff:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 838kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 [838kB]
Fetched 838kB in 3s (215kB/s)
(Reading database ... 246196 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 (using .../nautilus_1%3a2.22.3-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nautilus ...
Setting up nautilus (1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2) ...

jeff@WOC-Ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
jeff@WOC-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
jeff@WOC-Ubuntu:~$
==

After that, I rebooted. Nautilus still has exactly the same problems as before, namely: Deleted Items icon missing; Places > Computer, Places > CD/DVD Creator and Places > Network don't work; USB drives don't mount; internal drives appear on desktop as "sda1" etc, not by their volume names as they originally did.

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SuzCreamChees (suzcreamchees) said :
#3

theslime@theslime-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus
[sudo] password for theslime:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libboost-regex1.34.1 libio-string-perl libboost-program-options1.34.1
  ubuntu-desktop libboost-iostreams1.34.1 rblibtorrent1 libmp4-info-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/838kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 158034 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2 (using .../nautilus_1%3a2.22.3-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nautilus ...
Setting up nautilus (1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2) ...

theslime@theslime-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
theslime@theslime-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libboost-regex1.34.1 libio-string-perl libboost-program-options1.34.1
  ubuntu-desktop libboost-iostreams1.34.1 rblibtorrent1 libmp4-info-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thank you for your response making you can help me fix this.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#4

Please also be sure you have the system upgraded, try:

sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then reboot your pc, type:

sudo reboot

Hope this helps

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SuzCreamChees (suzcreamchees) said :
#5

sorry for the delayed response. I tried all of what you added and it is still doing the same thing. Thank you all for your help. Is there anything else you can think of? I thought I could just back up all my data and go back to gusty. But, I can't use my hard drives and I can't burn dvd/cds correctly so Im at risk of loosing all my data. If any one else has any other ideas, I would greatly apprectiate it.

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SuzCreamChees (suzcreamchees) said :
#6

I have figured out a way to back up all my data and I am going back to gusty now. Thank you for the effort.