Cannot manually arrange (drag and drop) url desktop launchers after upgrade from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10

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Thank you for your bug report, could you describe the exact steps you are using to trigger the issue?

Just the old "drag and drop" routine. Position pointer over desktop icon, left click and hold down then move to another position on the desktop.

you get errors when doing that? that's very weird ... does it happen in a guest session as well or only for your user?

I'm the only user so cannot comment on the "Guest Session" question as none are set up. Some "shortcuts" do not exhibit this problem. The "Home" icon, for example, can be moved around freely. From the error message I described it appears the operation is trying to copy root (/). I have another "machine" that has not been upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 that doesn't have this problem. It, however, has nautilus version 3.6.3 instead of version 3.8.2 that was installed with the 13.10 upgrade on this computer.

Don't know if this matters but the file type of the "offenders" is HTML document (text/html). The "non offenders" have different and varied file types.

The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

On 11/04/2013 07:47 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if
> somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software
> by following the instructions at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please
> tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a
> bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => New
>
Filed upstream as suggested. Bug#711584