Randomly fails to show folder contents, "loading..." forever

[teo1978]

This happens to me randomly every once in a very long while. I don't know of a way to reproduce it systematically.

I just navigate to a folder. It says "Loading..." on the bottom-right of the window, and it stays like that forever, failing to display the contents of the folder, without any error message.
It doesn't have to be a folder with lots of files. Right now I've just seen it happen with a folder that only contains 4 files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-98.121-generic 4.4.90
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Nov 20 15:28:13 2017
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'190'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1377x833+2463+219'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 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 2013-10-11 (1500 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

Assuming Fix Released, please change back to New if you can reproduce this issue on Ubuntu 18.04 or Cosmic.

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

I think you should stop assuming that all bugs that you don't observe, that had never been easy to systematically reproduce in the first place, are fixed.