Nautilus does not open after updating to 19.04

[Nicolás Abel Carbone]

After updating to Ubuntu 19.04 dev branch, nautilus does not open at all. Moreover, trying to open nautilus from the terminal does not give any error, nor any output at all, and no window opens.

I don't really know how to report this bug without any terminal output.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-7.8-generic 5.0.0
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 29 13:58:12 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-23 (398 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180222)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-03-29 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus:

[Nicolás Abel Carbone (nicocarbone)]

Update: Enabling and disabling the search and notification permissions on Settings->Applications->Nautilus solved the problem.

I will leave the bug report open as I think there is still a bug involved (maybe related to tracker?).

[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.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Same issue here, same workaround helps.

Sebastian, it's seems like Nautilus does not crash. It just start, sit there and do nothing, not even create a window, yet still running in background.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace#Already_running_programs describes how to get a stacktrace of a program hanging

[Murshid Ahmed (murshid1988)]

Same issue for me. It was working for a while and all of a sudden it stopped. The workaround mentioned in #2 doesn't work for me.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace#Already_running_programs describes how to get a stacktrace of a program hanging

Attached.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Workaround does not help me too anymore. So there is possibility that after system upgrade there was one issue, and now it's another.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Interestingly, I left virtual machine with not working Nautilus running, and few hours later found that Nautilus started after all. So it's not like it not working at all, it's just take few minutes/hours to show the window.

I restored virtual machine backup created yesterday and this was reproducible.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/? From the backtrace it looks like it's stucked in some tracker call

[Castaignede Damien (damienc427)]

Hello,

As RussianNeuroMancer, my explorer finally starts after almost one hour.
But i'm not on virutal machine, it's happening on my laptop under 19.04.
We are 4 working with same settings and i'm the only one experiencing this issue..

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

Hi,

in case that helps, I have noticed that this bug is 100% reproducible for me hen I try to start Nautilus right after booting my laptop. If, however, I wait for a few minutes after booting, I can start Nautilus without any delay.

[Dominic Mayers (dominic.mayers)]

Also in case that helps, I experience the same bug. In addition, #2 did not work for me. Immediately after executing "tracker reset -e" on a shell, nautilus shows instantly after a click, but the problem comes back at the next reboot.

[Doru Costea (doru-costea)]

Same experience as julo. Also, I have a storage volume I use to mount manually after boot. If I mount it quickly I have no problems. Sometimes I get into this bug. And sometimes all starred locations on that volume disapper. It appears to be a race between me and the tracker.

[Alexandre N. Cardoso (alexnc)]

Was able to have Nautilus back doing "killall nautilus; nautilus --check" on terminal, but just for the current session.

[Rulon Oboev (rulon-oboev)]

Same for me on Ubuntu 20.04