nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

StacktraceTop:
 nautilus_icon_container_unfreeze_updates (container=0x327f400) at nautilus-icon-container.c:6853
 end_renaming_mode (container=0x327f400, commit=1) at nautilus-icon-container.c:8387
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Got the same error after changing the .config/user-dirs.dirs file to a mounted disk

Getting the same error on fresh install (today) with all available updates.

Just had this crash after closing nautilus after browsing connected phone media.. no other difference from other usage of nautilus which performed ok

Crashed after an update today. Could not see any direct relation to anything.

Two seconds after everything has loaded on my 11.10 desktop it crashes every single time without fail.
Also it crashes when I switch user and then log back in.
At least it's consistent :)

Given this bug may affect large number of users and it sometimes may cause files being lost (if it crashes during mv as it happened to me) I think the importance level should be changed to High.

had the same after closing nautilus. before i noticed that copy, cut and paste via strg + c x v didn't work, it was just working with right clicks...

The "ctrl+v" pasting problem is reported as a separate bug report (you can mark it as affecting you) : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/827921

Callum if you experience these crashes on every boot can you provide a better backtrace as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace
This could really help working on this issue upstream. Thanks!

I'll do it as soon as I have a chance (today or tomorrow)

Well this is good... I started up my laptop to read the backtrace page and set it up and nautilus didn't crash. I have restarted my laptop several times and it won't crash. Oh the irony :)
Can I set up the backtrace to run all the time for nautilus? Just in case it starts crashing again?

Just open /usr/share/lib and change from the icon view to list view. IT CRASH.
In general, when changing from icon view to list view in a folder which have a lot of items (like in lib folder), nautilus always crashes (fortunately, next time open that folder, nautilus still save its view status so I don't have to change view again.)

Yes, you can attach to the already running process or just kill nautilus
and start it in gdb as described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace
This way you can run it all the time witch gdb, however I was also not
able to reproduce this bug for 3 days now so maybe it's gone :?

herophuong93: you're right there but this is caused by a different bug (
bug 804133 )

This just happened to me shortly after I opened a tab in Nautilus to view some system folders, then switched back to Firefox.

What do you know, just happened again to me under similar circumstances. Maybe this is reproducible for me?

Also, could bug #849473 be a duplicate of this? It's not marked as such, but it's the first thing to come up when I do a Google search for the bug title.

WarriorIng64, if you can reproduce it then please install the nautilus-dbg package and follow the steps described on ubuntu wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace
Please note that you can attach to the already running nautilus process and work normally until this bug reoccurs. At this step it is crucial to get a good backtrace of this one so your help will be very much appreciated.

Lukasz, not sure now if I can do that. After this morning's updates 3D stopped working entirely for me, and unfortunately it was Unity 3D's Alt+Tab that I was often using to trigger the crash. I am having trouble getting Unity 2D to do the same. Or maybe I was just (un)lucky before.

Nevertheless, I did get the nautilus-dbg package and I will be running nautilus from gdb from here on out, just in case.

Not a lot of duplicates, not reproducible. Lowering importance.

I was able to cause this bug to happen by:

1. Connect to two remote servers (I used the Extra Pane F3 to seperate them)
2. Copy files from one to the other.
3. While the 'File Operations' dialog is working close the main nautilus window.
4. File Operations closes shortly after and got this crash report.

Thanks, Pedro could you check if the steps described lead to a bug?

I'm not able to recreate the problem with the steps previously described, I've create two SSH connections to different machines and try to recreate the issue with no positive results, also did a mix of SSH/FTP and the issue was not present on any of those tests, do you have any other steps in order to reproduce it? Can you get a backtrace for us ? Thanks.

Occurred on removal of a usb pendrive. Couldn't reproduce crash though.

want fix?!

Happend for me after doing sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal then sudo nautilus -q and then trying to open nautilus thru the icon in Unity.

I have seen this happen when I was doing some activities in a folder with PDF's in it. A few PDF's seemed to have a thumbnail rendered and a few others not. After closing Nautilus I got the crash report.

Sebastian, and all:
For me Nautilus crashes whenever I go to particular folders, so is reproducible that way.

One of those folders has files with the following extensions:
html
pdf
xls
txt
doc
odt
zip

txt~
html~

and two sub-folders. Let me know if I can help in testing the bug in any other way.

Pranesh, if you are able to consistently reproduce these crashes (I haven't been able to do so for a while now, despite my best efforts), if you could kindly look at comment #22 above and get us a backtrace with nautilus-dbg installed, I imagine that would still be VERY helpful.

Crash seems to happen in different ways for the reporters if you can reproduce it easily may you please write some easy steps to reproduce the issue ? Thanks.

Well, just got a crash while gdb was attached! Followed the steps at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace to produce the following output, as requested. (The crash itself occurred just after I did a whole bunch of random stuff involving searching for files and switching tabs.)

nautilus is constantly crashing on me. fresh install on a samsung n130 netbook. Do you have enough information on this bug or should I do a backtrace?

The core dump appears almost every time I list files under my home, the Ubuntu version is 11.04, here is a stack trace.

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Core was generated by `nautilus'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00941fc2 in g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0x20, iface_type=141471128)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gtype.c:3989
3989 /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gtype.c: No such file or directory.
 in /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gtype.c
(gdb) where
#0 0x00941fc2 in g_type_check_instance_cast (type_instance=0x20, iface_type=141471128)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gtype.c:3989
#1 0x080b1add in nautilus_window_close_pane (pane=0x879c878) at nautilus-window.c:845
#2 0x00b311a9 in g_list_foreach (list=<value optimized out>, func=0x80b19a0 <nautilus_window_close_pane>, user_data=0x0)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./glib/glist.c:938
#3 0x080b0590 in nautilus_window_destroy (object=0x8736008) at nautilus-window.c:648
#4 0x0093748c in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x86cf868, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1,
    param_values=0x8933368, invocation_hint=0xbffcb8b0, marshal_data=0x80a3300)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gmarshal.c:79
#5 0x00919cc7 in g_type_class_meta_marshal (closure=0x86cf868, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8933368,
    invocation_hint=0xbffcb8b0, marshal_data=0x4c) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gclosure.c:878
#6 0x0091b372 in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x86cf868, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8933368,
    invocation_hint=0xbffcb8b0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gclosure.c:767
#7 0x0092da49 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x86ccf38, detail=0, instance=0x8736008, emission_return=0x0,
    instance_and_params=0x8933368) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gsignal.c:3368
#8 0x00936b29 in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x8736008, signal_id=11, detail=0,
    var_args=0xbffcba6c "j\235", <incomplete sequence \354>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gsignal.c:2983
#9 0x00936cc2 in g_signal_emit (instance=0x8736008, signal_id=11, detail=0)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gsignal.c:3040
#10 0x00dbb2c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00ecd324 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00ed8346 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#13 0x0091ebff in g_object_run_dispose (object=0x8736008) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gobject.c:945
#14 0x00dbbe7e in gtk_object_destroy () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#15 0x0808134a in nautilus_main_event_loop_quit (explicit=1) at nautilus-main.c:154
#16 0x0093748c in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID (closure=0x8719300, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1,
    param_values=0x8a39498, invocation_hint=0xbffcbc50, marshal_data=0x0)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gmarshal.c:79
#17 0x0091b372 in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x8719300, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=0x8a39498,
    invocation_hint=0xbffcbc50) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gobject/gclosure.c:767
#18 0x0092e048 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0x86f72e8, detail=0, instance...

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