Nautilus hangs on accidental ctrl-double-click of a folder

[Michael Ireland]

me@mypc:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

me@mypc:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages

What I Expected To Happen: Select multiple files using CTRL-Click method so that I can move them to another directory.

What Actually Happened: I accidentally CTRL-DoubleClicked which seems to have set off a Nautilus hang.

Here is a sequence of events, including some probably trivial details, but I figure everything helps:

1. On an EXT4 partition separate from the rest of Ubuntu, where I store large multimedia files, I was about to move multiple large files and directories (around 1gb each) to a nested folder.

2. I had selected one folder (I don't think it was a stand-alone file), then holding the CTRL key, I went to select another folder.

3. Instead of single-clicking, my finger decided it had Tourettes and I double-clicked it.

4. The hang occurred immediately, although I wasn't aware of it for a few seconds. The first file was fully highlighted, and the second file had a ligher colored selection highlight.

5. The application was unresponsive, but I was able to move the window. After a moment, the window grayed out.

6. I became impatient and invoked the xkill command.

7. Upon selecting the home folder from the Unity launcher panel, the icon flashed for a moment or two and then nothing happened.

8. When I invoked nautilus via command like, I was given this output after few moments:

me@mypc:~$ nautilus
Could not register the application: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

9. By the time I typed about half of this error report, I was able to run Nautilus from the panel again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 13 21:51:27 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1238x677+300+97'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'235'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'start-with-status-bar' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-29 (382 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-23 (83 days ago)

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I can't reproduce this bug in Files 3.26.3-0ubuntu4 on Ubuntu 18.04 so assuming that this is fixed.