Nautilus Crash When Creating a New Folder For a Lot of Files

[Michael Murphy]

This bug has existed in nautilus ever since I first started using Linux nearly a year ago. It is easily induced by selecting a large amount of files and then right clicking a file and selecting to create a new directory. Attached is a very detailed gdb backtrace.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature:

Uname: Linux 3.12.4-custom x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Dec 31 23:47:31 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-25 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rey Leonard Amorato (rl.amorato)]

Same problem here on Ubuntu 16.04.1

[Hadrien (psydk)]

I don't have a crash on Ubuntu 16.10 (Nautilus 3.20.3) but with 1000 files, the process is very slow, something like 1 to 5 seconds per file, the CPU load is high, and at the end the summary popup says: 0 files moved. The move succeeded though.

[Hadrien (psydk)]

It seems to be ok on Ubuntu 17.04 with Nautilus 3.26.0