Segmentation fault on startup

[Amr Hassan]

Binary package hint: nautilus

My computer froze, after resetting it, Nautilus now won't start. It says "Segmentation fault" and just quits. I did nothing special to nautilus or tempered with anything. I tried removing all my Nautilus extensions and even changing the GTK theme but nothing worked.

Help request in Ubuntuforums at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8487761

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 12 01:54:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

I just noticed that it says

(nautilus:2620): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

before it starts loading extensions.

[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

Nautilus works as a different user, `sudo nautilus` launches it correctly. So is it a configuration problem? Where is nautilus's configuration files?

[Amr Hassan (amr-hassan)]

Turned out to be corrupted files in ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata