nautilus crashed with signal 5 in wl_display_connect()

[Erkin Alp Güney]

Nautilus crashes just after login. Autologin and desktop icons are enabled. Manual execution of nautilus is not affected.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-9.14-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.6-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 17 11:01:07 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-11 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140811)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/nautilus
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0
 wl_display_connect () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
 gdk_display_manager_open_display () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0
 gtk_init_check () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
Title: nautilus crashed with signal 5 in wl_display_connect()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 wl_log (fmt=fmt@entry=0x7fb059c5bc80 "error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.\n") at ../src/wayland-util.c:378
 connect_to_socket (name=0x0) at ../src/wayland-client.c:638
 wl_display_connect (name=name@entry=0x0) at ../src/wayland-client.c:775
 _gdk_wayland_display_open (display_name=0x0) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.12.2/./gdk/wayland/gdkdisplay-wayland.c:249
 gdk_display_manager_open_display (manager=<optimized out>, name=0x0) at /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-3.12.2/./gdk/gdkdisplaymanager.c:462

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 14.10 (utopic) reached end-of-life on July 23, 2015.

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