Nautilus crashes (segmentation fault) after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

[Sayantan Das]

I am encountering nautilus crash after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10. THe file manager is totally unusable. Below is the terminal output

:~$ nautilus
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
** (nautilus:6029): DEBUG: SyncDaemon already running, initializing SyncdaemonDaemon object

(nautilus:6029): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed

(nautilus:6029): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 14 10:14:07 2011
InstallationMedia: Easylinux OS 0.7 "Project Delhi" - Release amd64 (20110521)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elbarbudo (patricearnal)]

I have 2 machines : a laptop running i386 architecture : NO problem
The second one runs amd64 archiecture and is affected by the problem.

Both has been upgraded from 11.04 to 10.10

[Elbarbudo (patricearnal)]

Installing DropBox seemed to have restarted Nautilus, but just for ONE time.

Issuing nautilus in a terminal allowed Nautilus to run almost normally.

But after quitting (^C in the terminal), next invocations of nautilus crashed again with segmentation fault.

[Gorka Navarrete (emrys)]

I have the same problem in a 64 bits Ubuntu 11.04. The problem seems related to Dropbox.

When Nautilus crashes, opening it from a terminal (with Dropbox opened) yields:

emrys@emryslaptop:~$ nautilus
** (nautilus:15647): DEBUG: SyncDaemon already running, initializing SyncdaemonDaemon object
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

(nautilus:15647): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed

(nautilus:15647): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_action_set_visible: assertion `GTK_IS_ACTION (action)' failed
Segmentation fault

If I close Dropbox and try again, Nautilus opens without problems, just a bunch of messages ("(nautilus:16882): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_get: assertion `GCONF_IS_CLIENT (client)' failed") in the terminal, but no crash.

[Elbarbudo (patricearnal)]

Uninstalling Dropbox solved the problem for me

[Thomas Mortagne (thomas-mortagne)]

Don't know if it's related to Dropbox but I have it installed too.

[Sunil K Chopra (sunil-sunilkchopra)]

This is happening to me too. I'm not sure of the Dropbox thing either, I do have that installed. If I have time, I'll uninstall it and see.

[Gorka Navarrete (emrys)]

This might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-open-terminal/+bug/865115

After uninstalling nautilus-open-terminal, the problem ends. At least on a 11.10 64-bits.

Is that your case?

[Gorka Navarrete (emrys)]

@Sunil, it's not necessary to uninstall Dropbox, just close it (Quit Dropbox) and see if that makes Nautilus stable.

[Vancouverite (sethgilchrist)]

This exact bug is effecting me too and I don't have drop box, but I do have nautilus-open-terminal installed, so it is likely that that is the culprit. I'll try uninstalling it and see how it goes over the next few days.

[Sayantan Das (sayantan13)]

I fixed this bug by completely uninstalling Ubuntu one and reinstalling it.

[Thomas Mortagne (thomas-mortagne)]

Indeed just tested and it's definitely not cause by Dropbox but by nautilus-open-terminal for me. I uninstalled it and kept Dropbox running and now it working well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, could you install ubuntuone-client-gnome 2.0.1-0ubuntu2 from the stable updates and see if that solves you issue

[Gorka Navarrete (emrys)]

Yes, the problem ends after installing ubuntuone-client-gnome 2.0.1-0ubuntu2

I am marking this as a duplicate of bug 865115 as it seems to be two different descriptions of the same problem with the same solution.