Nautilus crashes on startup

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

When I log in, the desktop is drawn for a moment, and then the icons disappear. The wallpaper remains. When I click on the Nautilus icon, the same thing happens. Loading from a terminal gives me:

$ nautilus

(nautilus:8682): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.SessionManager.AlreadyRegistered: Unable to register client
Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
sys:1: Warning: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (nautilus:8682): CRITICAL **: nautilus_menu_provider_get_background_items: assertion 'NAUTILUS_IS_MENU_PROVIDER (provider)' failed

** (nautilus:8682): CRITICAL **: nautilus_menu_provider_get_background_items: assertion 'NAUTILUS_IS_MENU_PROVIDER (provider)' failed

** (nautilus:8682): CRITICAL **: nautilus_menu_provider_get_background_items: assertion 'NAUTILUS_IS_MENU_PROVIDER (provider)' failed

** (nautilus:8682): CRITICAL **: nautilus_menu_provider_get_background_items: assertion 'NAUTILUS_IS_MENU_PROVIDER (provider)' failed
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
Error loading document: File type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported

(nautilus:8682): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_loader_close: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_LOADER (loader)' failed

(nautilus:8682): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_loader_get_pixbuf: assertion 'GDK_IS_PIXBUF_LOADER (loader)' failed
sys:1: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 19 16:15:13 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+356+603'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-02 (169 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-12-10 (8 days ago)

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

This appears to be a duplicate of #1203349. I had a 0-byte file with extension .pdf in ~/Desktop (probably created by Evince or Firefox). Changing the extension solved the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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