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tinuz
Asked: 2012-02-15 22:53:30 +0800 CST

How to fix this GDBus error?

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After running a system update I got this error when I wanted to save a screen shot to my desktop:

Impossible to save the screenshot to file:///home/tinuz/Pictures. Error was 

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/bin/nautilus received signal 6.
 Please choose another location and retry.

It tells me to save it to another location but when saving to another location I get the same error message. Please let me know how to fix the problem.

Thanks in advance tinuz

Just got home and here is the output:

tinuz@PC1-1110:~$ id; ls -ld /home/tinuz/Pictures; ls -ld /home/tinuz; ls -ld /home

uid=1000(tinuz) gid=1000(tinuz) groups=1000(tinuz),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),118(admin),124(sambashare)
drwxr-xr-x 4 tinuz tinuz 4096 2012-02-14 21:25 /home/tinuz/Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 49 tinuz tinuz 4096 2012-02-15 18:24 /home/tinuz
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-01-29 22:07 /home
tinuz@PC1-1110:~$
11.10 dbus

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Based on the comments above, sounds like a program (file permissions or otherwise) problem. Unfortunately, in this case, I would backup my important data and just reinstall the root (/) partition.

    If you enabled any PPA or other third-party repositories, please don't, they're not all safe, unless you're 100% sure they work. Sometimes they exist in order to test packages.

    Alternatively, you can always:

    1. use the command import from package imagemagick
    2. install gimp and from the menu File > Create > Screenshot
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