nautilus assert failure: malloc(): memory corruption (fast)

[Zihang Ye]

It happened quite a few times

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.1
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: malloc(): memory corruption (fast)
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 4 08:39:35 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'search-view' b"'icon-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'174'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'726x498+39+29'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'standard'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-11 (388 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fef24a82b9a "%s\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:181
 malloc_printerr (str=str@entry=0x7fef24a84bc0 "malloc(): memory corruption (fast)") at malloc.c:5350
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7feee8000020, bytes=bytes@entry=33) at malloc.c:3598
 _int_realloc (av=av@entry=0x7feee8000020, oldp=oldp@entry=0x7feee805d120, oldsize=oldsize@entry=32, nb=nb@entry=48) at malloc.c:4570
 __GI___libc_realloc (oldmem=0x7feee805d130, bytes=32) at malloc.c:3230
Title: nautilus assert failure: malloc(): memory corruption (fast)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-27 (37 days ago)
UserGroups: adm bumblebee cdrom dialout dip libvirt lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
usr_lib_nautilus: dropbox 2015.10.28

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __libc_message (action=action@entry=do_abort, fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fef24a82b9a "%s\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:181
 malloc_printerr (str=str@entry=0x7fef24a84bc0 "malloc(): memory corruption (fast)") at malloc.c:5350
 _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7feee8000020, bytes=bytes@entry=33) at malloc.c:3598
 _int_realloc (av=av@entry=0x7feee8000020, oldp=oldp@entry=0x7feee805d120, oldsize=oldsize@entry=32, nb=nb@entry=48) at malloc.c:4570
 __GI___libc_realloc (oldmem=0x7feee805d130, bytes=bytes@entry=32) at malloc.c:3230

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dave Goldsbrough (daveg-k)]

This is happening to me several times now on a daily basis.

Each time I submit the crash report and each time within the report it says a duplicate of this bug report. How can I help resolve it.

New install of 18.04 from about a month ago - all updates and upgrades installed.