nautilus crashed with signal 5 in _XReadEvents()

[Alan Bell]

just got an error on startup, nautilus wasn't running (except for to render the desktop icons I guess)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-6.14-generic 3.9.6
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Jun 24 08:30:51 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1364x739+2048+384'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'206'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-01 (418 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: nautilus --new-window
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 _XReadEvents () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
 cairo_surface_flush () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
Title: nautilus crashed with signal 5 in _XReadEvents()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-12 (11 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip fuse libvirtd lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 _cairo_xlib_shm_surface_flush (abstract_surface=0x290c750, flags=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-xlib-surface-shm.c:696
 INT_cairo_surface_flush (surface=0x290c750) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-surface.c:1510
 _cairo_xlib_surface_discard_shm (surface=surface@entry=0x2d424d0) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-xlib-surface.c:369
 _cairo_xlib_surface_finish (abstract_surface=0x2d424d0) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-xlib-surface.c:401
 _cairo_surface_finish (surface=0x2d424d0) at /build/buildd/cairo-1.12.14/src/cairo-surface.c:1007

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is quite old and the code changed since, also there has been no new report of that specific problem nor activity for some years so assuming it has been resolved and closing the ticket. If you still get issues in newer versions feel free to open a new report though.