nemo-preview does not work at all; writes a crash file

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Updated to linuxmint 18.3 today, hoping the bug would clear up. But no.

Linux Mint 18.3; Cinnamon 64bit.

Open Nemo, try any previewable file type and press spacebar. Nothing happens. No preview.

The file

  /var/crash/_usr_lib_nemo-preview_nemo-preview-start.1000.crash

is created. It's 2.7MB, and attached to this report.

It starts:

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Wed Nov 29 17:49:44 2017
DistroRelease: Linux 18.3
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/nemo-preview/nemo-preview-start
ExecutableTimestamp: 1508862517
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/nemo-preview/nemo-preview-start
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<set>
 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcMaps:
 00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1177172 /usr/lib/nemo-preview/nemo-preview-start
 00601000-00602000 r--p 00001000 08:01 1177172 /usr/lib/nemo-preview/nemo-preview-start
 00602000-00603000 rw-p 00002000 08:01 1177172 /usr/lib/nemo-preview/nemo-preview-start
 00d59000-01467000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
 7fe010000000-7fe010021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe010021000-7fe014000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe014000000-7fe014021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe014021000-7fe018000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe018000000-7fe018021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe018021000-7fe01c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe01c000000-7fe01c021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe01c021000-7fe020000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe020000000-7fe020021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe020021000-7fe024000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe024000000-7fe024021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe024021000-7fe028000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe028000000-7fe028021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe028021000-7fe02c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe030000000-7fe030021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe030021000-7fe034000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe034000000-7fe034022000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
 7fe034022000-7fe038000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0

[Michael Webster (miketwebster)]

Hi, can you do a couple things:

Open mintreport and copy/paste the trace generated from that crash file you uploaded (I can review this raw file on my end, but it's not guaranteed to be accurate, it's better if you paste it from mintreport. It's in the menu under "System Reports".

Secondly, open a terminal and run "nemo-preview" - it should start and stay running. If not, let me know. If it does stay running, start up nemo and attempt to preview something. Observe anything that happens in that terminal.

Thanks