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nautilus package

segfault when selecting a folder in Ubuntu 22.10 using sudo nautilus causing nautilus to close

Bug #1994058 reported by Gustavo Alberto Peña Oliva
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Bug Description

The error appears using sudo nautilus and selecting any folder or location what causes it to kill sudo nautilus
making it close

(org.gnome.Nautilus:47066): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 15:06:54.827: g_dbus_connection_emit_signal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Violación de segmento (segfault in English)

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Tags: nautilus
Gustavo Alberto Peña Oliva (pikachuandeevee2000)
tags: added: nautilus
description: updated
description: updated
summary: segfault when selecting a folder in Ubuntu 22.10 using sudo nautilus
+ causing nautilus to close
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Himanshu (sh4mbh0) wrote :

Crashes the window while selecting the folder/drive using command sudo nautilus

(org.gnome.Nautilus:5431): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 17:00:36.324: g_dbus_connection_emit_signal: assertion 'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Segmentation fault

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :

Why using sudo nautilus at first ?

It won't work in wayland and it's expected.

It may work in xorg but not advised.

Maybe better try

pkexec nautilus

?

sudo has never been intended for launching graphical applications.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks but indeed graphical sofwares aren't meant to be working with sudo

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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