Re: can't create documents from template menu.

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 16:16 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:51 +0200, Chris Fanning wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've for a template folder problem.
> >> I copy documents, subfolders, and more documents into the template
> >> folder. When I right click on nautilus, and choose 'create document',
> >> I can see all the options correctly.
> >>
> >> But when I select one of them, nothing gets created. The only option
> >> that does create a file is the  'empty file' item,
> >
> > Weird. It works for me.
> > Do you get any console output when doing this if you start nautilus from
> > a terminal? (nautilus -q the active nautilus before starting a new one)
> 
> thanks. I didn't know that 'nautilus -q'.
> 
> so, the error I'm getting is this.
> ** (nautilus:14601): CRITICAL **: fm_directory_view_new_file:
> assertion `nautilus_file_is_local (source)' failed
>
> My home is on a NFS mount (if that helps any).

Could be related. Can you run nautilus under gdb like this:

nautilus -q
gdb nautilus
run
<wait till you see windows and stuff>
ctrl-c
break g_log
c
<create the file from the template>
bt


This will give a backtrace of the place where things break.