Nautilus (and other apps) force-close unless run as root

Bug #1449122 reported by Wolter HV
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
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Bug Description

After I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.10 to Ubuntu 15.04, I have been noting stability problems of many applications. They force-close randomly or when I trigger certain actions. Some of this apps include nautilus, gnome-maps, nemo, gnome-control-center, evolution, and others that I may not know of.
I have checked dmesg and syslog and I can see that all of the crashes report a segmentation fault, something about 0 ip and error 14. Below you can see some example dmesg lines:

gnome-control-c[3930]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fffcbccb708 error 14 in gnome-control-center.real[400000+3aa000]

nemo[5773]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff9ae1d118 error 14 in nemo[400000+183000]

gnome-maps[5811]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff32111558 error 14 in gnome-maps[400000+3f000]

In this 3 examples, all I did was:
In ...
gnome-control-center: I unlocked with my password the users section
nemo: I just navigated to some folders and let the application alone, then it crashed after a minute
gnome-maps: I tried to get directions

This was not happening before the system upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Apr 27 09:55:32 2015
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (2 days ago)

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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :

I tried to use apport-retrace but I didn't know which argument to pass. If I passed the crash file at /var/crash then it attempted to download some files and then nothing else happened.

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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :

gnome-maps apport-retrace crash report

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Wolter HV (wolterh) wrote :

gnome-control-center apport-retrace crash report

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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