randomly become unable to open new Nautilus windows

[teo1978]

At random times after having the system running for a few hours this starts happening:

- I don't have any Nautilus window open (I previously dad and at some point closed all of them)
- I click on Nautilus' launcher icon
- it kind of blinks for like 30 seconds (by the way, that's barely noticeable, that sucks on its own)

and then nothing happens, no Nautilus window opens up, no error message shows up (that's another thing that is wrong on its own, you should ALWAYS get an error message when something fails) and the Launcher icon finally stops blinking.

I retry a few times, same result.

So I open a terminal and try to launch Nautilus from there, so at least I get the fucking error messages:

$ nautilus

(nautilus:18764): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed

(nautilus:18764): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
Could not register the application: Timeout was reached

(nautilus:18764): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(nautilus:18764): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(nautilus:18764): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_object: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

For fuck's sake please switch to some other file manager, Nautilus is pathetic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-116.140-generic 4.4.98
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 27 16:03:32 2018
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'190'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1197x691+309+248'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
 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 2013-10-11 (1627 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

The following workaround works:

- find the pid of the currently running process of Nautilus (there is always one, I guess for the desktop)
- kill it. That makes the desktop disappears
- launch Nautilus again from the Launcher. This opens a new Nautilus window and also brings back the desktop. Now even if I close the Nautilus window, the desktop remains, as expected, and now everything works as expected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

Importance low????? You must really be retarded.

[teo1978 (teo8976)]

Still observing the issue.

Please change the value of importance to a sensible one, this is medium/high.