Nautilus crashes repeatedly on startup - segfault in libpython2.7.so.1

[Adam Collard]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Using Ubuntu Classic Edition (gnome-panel) and after login CPU usage rockets sky high with lots of "Opening File Manager" windows opening. (h)top shows nautilus is the culprit and has changing PIDs, /var/log/syslog reports many segfaults (as the PID changes)

 [ 1277.711649] nautilus[14573]: segfault at 4 ip 0
16654ba sp bf993300 error 4 in libpython2.7.so.1.0[1568000+238000]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 28 11:44:21 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
usr_lib_nautilus: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu7brasero 2.32.1-0ubuntu2nautilus-sendto 2.32.0-0ubuntu1evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu10nautilus-dropbox 0.6.3tracker-gui 0.8.17-1ubuntu1ubuntuone-client-gnome 1.5.5-0ubuntu2nautilus-share 0.7.2-14ubuntu1nautilus-dropbox 0.6.3file-roller 2.32.1-0ubuntu3python-nautilus 0.6.1-1build1nautilus-open-terminal 0.18-1nautilus-dropbox 0.6.3gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1-0ubuntu4totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu9groundcontrol 1.6.6-1

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

Hmm. Looks like this might just be a GroundControl bug - looking in ~/.xsession-errors I see a Python traceback

WARNING:root:Configuration file: '/home/user/.config/groundcontrol/settings.ya
ml' doesn't exist
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/python/nautilus-groundcontrol.py", line
 38, in <module>
    from GroundControl.commiter import CommitChanges, RevertChanges
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/GroundControl/commiter.py", line 31, in <mo
dule>
    from bzrlib.plugins.gtk.diff import DiffView
ImportError: No module named gtk.diff

Purging groundcontrol seems to have fixed it