nautilus crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

[bitu-derr]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The last time Nautilus crashed, I was clicking "find files" in the overlay thing, trying to find other partitions and attached devices (mp3 player). No partitions or devices showed up in Nautilus when Nautilus was launched via "Find Files".

This time around, I managed to finally find "Computer" via "Find More Apps" -- which makes absolutely no sense to me at all. Needless to say, when Nautilus was launched via the "Computer" shortcut under, ahem, "Find More Apps", the partitions and devices now showed up in the tree pane.

Nautilus crashed once more during this search.

So the initial bug is the Nautilus crash itself, but the much larger usability bug is that searching one's computer is not an app separate from searching for files. Making someone relearn basic interaction with the desktop is a major productivity killer, and a productivity killer without a purpose considering my laptop is "not a smartphone".

I was initially enthusiastic about Natty and Unity, even though I knew full well that they were solutions in search of DESKTOP problems from the outset. Now my enthusiasm has waned. Change for the sake of change is bad design. More and more to me Natty looks like it will be a big cluster .... for Canonical.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Mar 27 15:13:20 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: nautilus
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-27 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[bitu-derr (biturica)]

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gnome-3.html
The blog post linked to above is about Gnome Shell, but the standout phrase applies to Natty and Unity as well:
"Your computer is not a smartphone"

I could not agree more, and that should be a mantra repeated thousands of times daily by Unity devs and the devs of underlying Natty infrastructure that breaks the "Ubuntu Classic" experience when someone dares to add an applet to the Ubuntu Classic panels. Don't have a fallback if the fallback is not going to work. It's not a fallback if the plumbing is different.

I had a superbly usable alternative to KDE, now both Canonical and Gnome seem hell bent on pushing me to something I loathe (KDE). I might as well go back to Windows if I have to go to KDE. The Gnome 2.x Panels were the highlight of Ubuntu for me.

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