I have Ubuntu 12.04 (dual boot with Windows 7 if that matters). When I click on the icon of the Home folder in that column that pop-up when one hovers at the left of the screen, the icon flashes (like it's about to open), but nothing really happens for the user.
However, if I then try to open a folder in my Desktop, I can't, because my clicks are actually hit the home folder that's it's supposed to open, but I can not see.
This is the icon:
PS - There are more problems in my system, but I think that it would be nice to focus on one.
samaras@samaras-A15:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for samaras:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" UUID="F48672A6867268CE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="D2CE74FDCE74DAE5" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="10db8315-0db7-4c88-b72f-e8835cb7ba0e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="454c5d6c-f4c5-4649-9570-888986e54221" TYPE="swap"
samaras@samaras-A15:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=10db8315-0db7-4c88-b72f-e8835cb7ba0e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=454c5d6c-f4c5-4649-9570-888986e54221 none swap sw 0 0
samaras@samaras-A15:~$ mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/samaras/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=samaras)
EDIT.2
ls /home/samaras
listed my desktop items. Also, I found out that if I click on the Home folder icon, after 5-10 minutes, it will actually open. I tried to close it, but I had to force quit.
gparted output:
nautilus
in Terminal (Ctrl
+Alt
+T
) and try to navigate to your home folder. Do you see any errors? Can you post a screenshot of the offending icon?sudo blkid
,cat /etc/fstab
and alsomount
? Also, try runninggksudo nautilus
after a reboot. I've had similar issues.sudo apt-get install nemo
), does it suffer the same problem as well?gksudo nautilus
went as expected, i.e. it worked.