nautilus crashes when entering a query into the search box

[Jurgen Schellaert]

As soon as I start typing in its search box, nautilus freezes for a second and then goes on to crash. When that happens, the terminal reports a "Bus Error".

This happens systematically when the directory contains many files. It also appears to be restricted to X11.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: nautilus 1:44.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 16 21:39:52 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-10-29 (169 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Release amd64 (20221020)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-12 (4 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus:
 eiciel 0.10.0-1
 file-roller 43.0-1
 nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.48.0-1ubuntu1
 python3-nautilus 4.0-1build1

[Jurgen Schellaert (jurgen-schellaert-j)]

Update: the bug is NOT restricted to X11. Wayland is affected, too, although not as badly: it does not crash immediately and it happens only when searching directories containing many files (many = tens of thousands) and mostly when doing a remote search (over NFS). The error message is different, too: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

[Jurgen Schellaert (jurgen-schellaert-j)]

Update: It seems to be fixed by a tracker3 reset --filesystem. I'll see how it goes...