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nautilus package

  1. Bug #1405441
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1405441

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Bruce Pieterse (octoquad) wrote : Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()

Just to make sure that we are on the same page, do you get this error message immediately after running gksudo nautilus:
"Unable to create a required folder. Please create the following folder, or set permissions such that it can be created:
/root/.config/nautilus"? This is easily fixed by creating the directories.

When getting the properties of a folder not owned by root you get the following message "The owner could not be changed. Sorry, could not change the owner of "Folder Name" Specified owner 'Owner of file' doesn't exist". This shows for a second then nautilus crashes with "** ERROR:nautilus-properties-window.c:1839:schedule_owner_change_timeout: assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file))" on the command line.

If this is the case, I will need a backtrace from you using this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace. I have successfully been able to get a backtrace, but in my case the error is in g_assertion_message(). There are a few extra steps we need to do before that is not covered in the guide, but i'll be glad to provide these steps for you if you can confirm the above for me.

Thanks