nautilus stops responding, Desktop too
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This happens randomly every once in a while:
- Clicking on Nautilus' Launcher icon does nothing (it blinks for a while as if it was loading, then no window opens).
- Desktop icons (icons of files and folders in the Desktop) don't respond to clicks or right-clicks
- running nautilus from a terminal will not print any error message, won't open any nautilus window, but it will not exit either, just wait forever
The workaround is to "ps aux | grep nautilus" to find nautilus' process id and kill it. Then everything goes back to normal.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-96-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Oct 18 16:09:05 2017
GsettingsChanges:
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InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1467 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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