Comment 12 for bug 1286766

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote : Re: nautilus crashed with SIGABRT in bsearch()

The stack trace here seems corrupted but the errors.ubuntu.com report that is linking to this bug report [1] shows a proper stack trace.

This indicates the problem is when a warning dialog pops up on startup due to either the home directory or desktop directory not existing. Some following code then assumes this dialog is a file browser window and hits an exception.

I tried to reproduce this locally by deleting my Desktop folder / replacing it with a file but then it just reverts to using the home directory. The error reports don't give an indication on what users are doing to trigger this.

I can reproduce the crash by modifying nautilus to show the dialog always on startup.

[1] https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/e424819541e6fb73af5b7a2cc967afc4ff1afd58