Nautilus crashes when accessing some folders

Question

Since the past few days, Nautilus has started crashing whenever I access one of the Documents, video, pictures, download folder. It does not happen when I access the home folder and other mounted drives.

The interesting thing is I do not get any error messages, Nautilus simply closes when trying to access these folders.

Can you please tell what might be the problem and how to rectify ?

I have recently installed Gnome-documents and Sushi, and am on Gnome 3.2 with Oneric 11.10.

Thanks and Regards

Empty Template folder solved the problem for me – cwhisperer Mar 06 '16 at 08:46 — cwhisperer, Mar 06 '16 at 08:46

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '11 at 12:44

Removing nautilus-open-terminal fixed it for me. None of the Ubuntu One client stuff above helped for me, but removing nautilus-open-terminal definitely did. Nautilus now opens, and it seems to open slightly quicker.

With nautilus-open-terminal installed, if I launched nautilus from terminal, I would get a number of segmentation faults, and nautilus would either not open, or it would open then close after browsing a few folders.

After reading a comment in that forum BruceBerry mentioned above, about removing nautilus-open-terminal, the terminal now can just open nautilus with absolutely no error messages and I have Ubuntu One file syncing just fine.

This. Trying to delete .nautilus didn't help me at all, since there was no such file in my home directory to begin with. Removing nautilus-open-terminal did the trick. — nem75, Oct 10 '11 at 09:55

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 02 '12 at 06:44

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what i did was;

sudo apt-get purge nautilus-open-terminal

and now everything is just fine! I love the new distro!

edited Jul 02 '12 at 06:44

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answered Oct 15 '11 at 07:44

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fnkr · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-04T17:59:41.053

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Try to remove nautilus config files:

rm -rf ~/.nautilus

If its not working open nautilus on console, re-do it and copy the log for me pls.

edited Oct 04 '11 at 17:59

answered Oct 04 '11 at 14:51

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Hi, thnx for the help....When I try to run the command it says - rm: cannot remove `/home/jigar/.nautilus': No such file or directory – Jigar.Shah Oct 04 '11 at 16:44
@Jigar - when replying with additional information please reedit your question to add the additional information. Thanks. – fossfreedom Oct 04 '11 at 17:09
Sorry my bad. Try this: rm -rf ~/.nautilus – fnkr Oct 04 '11 at 17:59
Sorry bout that...will do... – Jigar.Shah Oct 04 '11 at 21:18

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 04 '11 at 16:53

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I have this bug too. Apparently a fix will be released soon: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client-gnome/stable-2-0/+bug/865567

answered Oct 04 '11 at 16:53

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as a workaround, disable ubuntu one file sync – BruceBerry Oct 04 '11 at 16:54
yeah. its a good thing i have zeitgiest journal and gnome-docs installed through which i can access all my documents and work stuff... – Jigar.Shah Oct 04 '11 at 16:58
You are right, it't that bug. I'm also affected. – Stefano Oct 04 '11 at 20:58

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 08 '12 at 03:00

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In my situation, the previously mentioned solution of purging nautilus-open-terminal solved my problem, thanks to Elnetotaca

sudo apt-get purge nautilus-open-terminal

answered Dec 08 '12 at 03:00

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