Nautilus crashes on monitor setup change

Bug #1502603 reported by Viktor Pal
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This bug affects 2 people
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I use GNOME Flashback as a desktop environment where Nautilus provides the desktop service.

Nautilus often crashes when I plug an external monitor on my computer or when I remove an external monitor.
This happened to me several times on two different machines, my laptop and my desktop computer.

I get the usual "Sorry, Ubuntu 15.04 has experienced an internal error." message and I see that the icons from my desktop are not appearing until I start nautilus again from the menu.

I have clicked on the send error report for the same bug in apport several times.

I would expect Nautilus to "survive" and similar action without problems.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.33-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 4 14:35:06 2015
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-26 (100 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Viktor Pal (deere) wrote :
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Viktor Pal (deere) wrote :

This is still the case in 15.10.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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kg (box-dev) wrote :

I have this issue in 16.04 and had it in 14.04 as well. It is very easy to reproduce; connect HDMI monitor, nautilus crashes. It happens both on connecting and disconnecting.

I am using the open source Radeon graphics driver if that helps.

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