using delete key on hidden trash folder, makes nautilus crash

[Andrew Constantine]

When working on an external hard drive, viewing the hidden folders I highlighted .trashes100 and pressed the delete key on the keyboard, this caused what I assume nautilus to try to trash the trash, ultimately leading to a crash.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 29 11:05:05 2015
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-10 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-22 (7 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Ronald Findling (realcrashdummy)]

Still experiencing this bug in Ubuntu 15.10

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen the bug if you don't provide the requested info, also do you have the stable glib update? it has a fix for a similar issue

[fsch (fsch)]

I also experience this bug in Ubuntu 15.10 when trashing the trash-directory (either .Trash-1000 on external drives or ~/.local/share/Trash). The backtrace is attached.

However nautilus doesn't always crash, initially I thought it only happens when I select some files and additionally the trash-directory and then hit the Delete-key, but it also happens when I only try to trash the Trash-directory. I could not determine exactly what triggers the crash, sometimes nautilus behaves correctly by showing me the dialog that the directory can't be trashed and if I want to delete it immediately instead. But then sometimes this crash happens, it seems pretty random to me.

This was tested in a fresh installation of Ubuntu 15.10 with all updates from the default package repositories up-to-date.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue there looks like bug #1512826 which has a SRU waiting for validation, please help testing it if you can