nautilus crashes when launched from terminal

[21M]

Binary package hint: nautilus

1) Ubuntu 9.10

2) nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1

3) Expected a folder window to open up when launching nautilus.

4) Everything described below is reproducible every time.

With nautilus closed, launching it normally from a terminal outputs the following without ever opening a window:

[code]
$ nautilus

(nautilus:15146): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.1

** (nautilus:15146): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:15146): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:15146): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'

(nautilus:15146): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Shutting down dropbox extension
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[/code]

With nautilus closed, launching it with gksu from a terminal outputs the following and opens up a root nautilus window:

[code]
$ gksu nautilus
(nautilus:29889): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.1

** (nautilus:29889): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:29889): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:29889): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
[/code]

It then outputs the following after being manually closed:

[code]
Shutting down dropbox extension

(nautilus:31758): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 1 element at quit time

(nautilus:31758): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[/code]

Launching nautilus with AWN, which I use as a gnome-panel replacement, works. While nautilus is running, trying to launch it again from a terminal outputs the following and exits without affecting existing windows:

[code]
$ nautilus

(nautilus:28510): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
[/code]

With gksu it behaves the same as when nautilus isn't already running (second [code] block above), and also doesn't affect existing windows.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 21:32:53 2009
Disassembly: 0x14c9ad0: Cannot access memory at address 0x14c9ad0
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: nautilus
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x14c9ad0: Cannot access memory at address 0x14c9ad0
 PC (0x014c9ad0) not located in a known VMA region (needed executable region)!
SegvReason: executing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 exit () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in exit()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[21M (21m-deactivatedaccount)]

Uninstalling Dropbox only makes the two related messages go away, so I believe it has nothing to do with this issue.

PS: In the paragraph following the last [code] block, "second [code] block" should be "second and third [code] blocks".

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? ()
*__GI_exit (status=0) at exit.c:100
__libc_start_main (main=0x8081040 <main>, argc=1,
_start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:119

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.