Nemo crashes often as I open a folder, or just afterwards.

[Lloyd Hayes]

Using Linux Mint, Mint 18 Sarah, but have also experienced this bug on prior version. (Mint 17)
I open a folder and just a second later, Nemo crashes. Or Nemo crashes just as I open a folder.

I reported this in the Mint Forum, and it has been hinted that this was due to me have a 12 TB SATA tower as external storage, and because the tower connects to the computer by USB 3.0. They say that there is a bug in Nemo related to USB drives.

However, Nemo has also often crashed even without the external tower connected.

My main hard drive is a 1 TB hard drive with nearly 70% capacity.

After it crashes, I can start Nemo again from the icon in the menu bar at the bottom. But it does not re-open the same folders.
It will also take my entire desktop with it when it crashes, and my wallpaper ends up being the standard Mint startup wallpaper.

I will rephrase this. When nemo crashes, all of my icons on my desktop disappear. And sometimes, the wallpaper is also replaced by the standard Mint wallpaper.

(I have a strong suspicion that this was the cause of one of my hard drives dying a couple of months ago.)

I had this same problem with Mint 17 roughly a years ago.

[Lloyd Hayes (hayeslloyd)]

White this repeats often, it does not repeat on demand.

[Steve Stites (stites)]

from Lloyd Hayes post:

"I open a folder and just a second later, Nemo crashes. Or Nemo crashes just as I open a folder."

"After it crashes, I can start Nemo again from the icon in the menu bar at the bottom. But it does not re-open the same folders. It will also take my entire desktop with it when it crashes".

"I will rephrase this. When nemo crashes, all of my icons on my desktop disappear."

I have the same problem with Nemo on Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.1 with the exception that I never lose my wallpaper. I do not have this problem on Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3 because I do not use Nemo on 17.3. My hardware configuration has been the same for several months. My Linux Mint 18.1 configuration is always up to date and the problem started as an intermittent on May 21 and became solid on May 22.

I have an external USB drive for backups. This USB drive is always plugged in. Sometimes the USB drive is powered up and sometimes it is powered down. The USB drive's status or history of power up/power down has no affect on the frequency of the bug appearing.

I have run fsck on seven of my eight internal hard drive partitions (excepting swap) on two internal hard drives. fsck corrected two file system problems on one of the Linux Mint 18.1 partitions but that did not fix the bug in Nemo. My external drive is 1TB with one partition. One internal drive is 1TB and the other is 500GB. My largest internal partition is 880GB.

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Steve Stites

[Lloyd Hayes (hayeslloyd)]

I just added a 2nd internal hard drive. I now have one 1 TB hard drive and one 2 TB internal hard drive. Nemo continues to crash at various times. It doesn't matter if I have external hard drives connected or not.

[Lloyd Hayes (hayeslloyd)]

OK. I have a suspicion about what is causing this. In rearranging files, this happens on a regular basis. I deal with lots of graphics. Both large and small graphics. I suspect that memory is topping out with the number of files. I also suspect that the thumbnail cache is involved with this, along with the main memory cache. I've noticed that nemo crashes just as the system shows an error with the thumbnail cache. Then there is the issue of the desktop background being replaced.

Again, and I may be wrong, this leads me to a cache problem.