nautilus will not start from launch bar

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel]

nautilus lives under the top icon on my launch bar
both <super>1 and clicking the icon results in a flashing icon
the flashing stops after a little while and nothing further happens

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu6 [modified: usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-98.121-generic 4.4.90
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Nov 11 20:46:26 2017
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'always-use-location-entry' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1235x472+45+24'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view' b'captions' b"['date_modified', 'where', 'none']"
 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 2017-07-27 (106 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still have that issue in the newer Ubuntu versions?

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

No, but I am still on 16.04.5

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing if you don't see the problem anymore

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

ok