Caja repeatedly crashes and restarts after booting Mate Wily

[Erick Brunzell]

After installing Ubuntu Mate Wily 20150825.1 amd64 and booting into the new install Caja tries to open repeatedly filling the window list applet with Caja attempting to open. And Caja will not open in order to view logs or such.

I believe this is reported upstream here:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues/19

In my case though it does not occur only on the first login but also each time you try to boot that install. Oddly this only affects one of two installs on the same identical hardware - the one being affected being an entire disc install and the one not affected being a manual partitioning install.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: caja 1.10.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Aug 25 22:33:13 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-25 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150825.1)
SourcePackage: caja
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

Apport had appeared to be filing an automated report but that never actually occurred. You can see that there are files in /var/crash:

lance@lance-AMD-desktop:~$ ls /var/crash
_usr_bin_caja.1000.crash _usr_bin_caja.1000.uploaded
_usr_bin_caja.1000.upload

I have no idea what will happen when I try to attach those but here we go.

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

The second and third of those won't attach because Launchpad says they're empty files.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1488748

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

At the time when this report was sent, Ubuntu MATE 15.10 had a mix of 1.8 and 1.10 packages, which could possibly affect the stability of the system. In particular, there was a problem with python-caja, and the attachment of this report indicates the related problem as well (python-caja can't find libpython2.7.so.1.0). However, near the end of September 2015 the python-caja problem has been fixed [1], and MATE has been fully synced with 1.10 from Debian Unstable [2].
It seems to me this report can be closed now.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496925
[2] https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-wily-beta2/

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

Yes, it's been fixed for quite a while now.