Whats this error gibberish mean?
 

I wanted to access nautilus as root to move a folder from my desktop into /usr/share/themes. I successfully did it, but my terminal had this crazy output while I was moving the folder:
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
** (nautilus:12166): DEBUG: Syncdaemon not running, waiting for it to start in NameOwnerChanged
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.


(nautilus:12166): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Missing callback called fullpath = /root/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.


** (nautilus:12166): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not exist

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> l2054
--> inode/directory
--> root

(nautilus:12166): Eel-WARNING **: "unique eel_ref_str" hash table still has 3 elements at quit time (keys above)

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///
--> file:///usr
--> file:///usr/share

(nautilus:12166): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 3 elements at quit time (keys above)
Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension


What does this all mean?

When you start a GUI app from a terminal, you will sometimes get all sorts of strange stuff in the terminal (edit: especially a big program such as Nautilus; it also controls the Gnome desktop). If the program worked, I wouldn't worry about it.

For grins and giggles, you might try starting nautilus with the --no-desktop switch and see whether the output is different.

Troubleshooting
 

Hey

First I searched the error: net usershare returned error 255:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-958457.html

Then started looking into nautilus issues: found this one, possible workaround and light explanation:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592348

This one confirms the bugs and links them: ctrl-f=nautilus:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

From what I understand of the output, is that you moved the folder and in doing so upset a few other programs. The programs were looking for the folder in the place it was last said to be, but it was not there. It looks to be a nautilus bug that is allowing this feedback. Possibly a gnome interjection due to the occurrence.

If you could please convey your ubuntu distro, gnome version, also what file / folder did you move, so that I can pin point the issue better. Thanks.

Hope this helps.

Neq

I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit, I have Unity, and I was moving a folder for a theme from my desktop to /usr/share/themes.

Hey

Thanks for the extra input.

Did you try any of the info to fix or workaround the problem?

Neq