following the hint from Tommaso I moved compiz.desktop out of /usr/share/applications to my /home/tmp dir and now nautilus can go to /usr/share/applications without crashing but it does now crash when going to /home/tmp . NOTE I used dolphin to move the file since it is not affected by this bug nor is MC , Krusader or emelFM2 .
following the hint from Tommaso I moved compiz.desktop out of /usr/share/ applications to my /home/tmp dir and now nautilus can go to /usr/share/ applications without crashing but it does now crash when going to /home/tmp . NOTE I used dolphin to move the file since it is not affected by this bug nor is MC , Krusader or emelFM2 .