Bug 434510 – gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.2.2.1: autocomplete in the run dialog does not work for non-members of group "games"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Serge Gavrilov 2012-09-09 20:33:59 UTC]

autocomplete in the run dialog does work for non-members of group "games"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gnome-extra/gnome-games
2. Start gnome session from user, which does not belong to "games" system group
3. Alt-F2 and try autocomplete the command
Actual Results:  
autocomplete does not work. In ~/.xsession-errors you have something like


    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Error invoking Gio.enumerate_children_finish: Permission denied
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"("Error invoking Gio.enumerate_children_finish: Permission denied")@gjs_throw:0
([object _private_unknown_GLocalFile],[object _private_Gio_SimpleAsyncResult])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/misc/fileUtils.js:11
"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Error invoking Gio.enumerate_children_finish: Permission denied"'

This is because /usr/games/bin belongs to $PATH, but it is not accessible.

I spent several hours to debug this problem :)

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2012-09-16 09:10:07 UTC]

I don't understand the problem, I guess you mean autocompletion doesn't work at all when you are not in games group (even for non games installed in plain /usr/bin), right?

[Comment 2 Serge Gavrilov 2012-09-16 11:36:39 UTC]

Yes, exactly. If PATH contains an unreadable direcrory, then autocomplete is broken. This is clearly upstream gnome-shell bug, but the peresence of such directory (/usr/bin/games) is gentoo specific.

I have upgraded from gnome-light to gnome and was surprised that automplete stopped working.

[Comment 3 Serge Gavrilov 2012-09-16 11:37:30 UTC]

sorry, I meant /usr/games/bin

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-27 10:57:27 UTC]

If still valid with 3.8, this needs to be reported to upstream

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2013-08-23 09:33:50 UTC]

looks fixed in 3.8