nautilus stops generating thumbnails after failing on an empty file

[Luc Pi]

If you have an empty (0 bytes) media file, nautilus will stop generating thumbnails after it met this file (and most probably fail to generate a thumbnail for that file). Then Nautilus generate no thumbnail at all for the whole session in whatever folder or file type you try.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.2
Uname: Linux 3.11.10-03111008-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 14 17:42:37 2014
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-17 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Luc Pi (oluc)]

When started from a terminal, nautilus gives this error messages:

totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't open file 'file:///foo/bar.mp3'

(nautilus:28909): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_loader_close: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_LOADER (loader)' failed

(nautilus:28909): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_loader_get_pixbuf: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_LOADER (loader)' failed

[Luc Pi (oluc)]

I think that this is fixed in nautilus 3.16

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still get that issue in newer Ubuntu versions?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the previous comment suggests not, closing then, thx