nautilus segfault with gnome-session-wayland

[Bryan Hundven]

This is on 16.04, `update-manager -d` from 15.10 ubuntugnome.

Installed gnome-session-wayland after successfully using the normal gnome-session and tried to start nautilus after logging in.

It didn't start. I tried to start it from the shell and just got:

$ nautilus
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I installed the wayland, libx11 and nautilus dbg packages and ran gdb:

$ gdb nautilus
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/nautilus
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe8da7700 (LWP 6014)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 6015)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 6016)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe2bd3700 (LWP 6017)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff589850a in XInternAtom (dpy=0x799160,
    name=0xb54e30 "_NET_DESKTOP_MANAGER_S0", onlyIfExists=0)
    at ../../src/IntAtom.c:174
174 ../../src/IntAtom.c: No such file or directory.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-19.23-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Nov 29 02:02:35 2015
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-11-29 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alexander Skwar (alexander-skwar)]

Same for me with Xenial "final".

~/ gdb nautilus
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Reading symbols from nautilus...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/nautilus...done.
done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/nautilus
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0x7fffe8af4700 (LWP 6969)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe3fff700 (LWP 6970)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe37fe700 (LWP 6971)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe2997700 (LWP 6972)]

Thread 1 "nautilus" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff585450a in XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
(gdb) quit

[Kartoch (kartoch)]

This bug is still present in 16.04 with latest updates.

[Kartoch (kartoch)]

Workaround #1:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/790047/nautilus-not-launching-on-wayland

Quote:

    The problem was, nautilus wasn't updated to 3.18 in Ubuntu Gnome. I have updated it with the
    following commands:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

    And yes, it works!!!

[Kartoch (kartoch)]

The workaround #1 does not work for ubuntu 16.04:

output:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome
Before upgrading your system to a new Ubuntu release (i.e. from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10), you should run 'ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3' first.

*** You need to run 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' to avoid problems. ***
Please read the output before entering 'Y' to make sure important packages won't be removed.

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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2017-March/004229.html
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[Brandon Jansen (jansennerd10)]

The same issue is present on a fresh Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS install with gnome-session-wayland.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does anyone still get that issue in 18.04 or 18.10?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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