nautilus crashes when opening any folder or file (nautilus-dropbox and new glib)

I had the same problem in 11.10. Uninstalling the dropbox package resolved the issue for me, so it's possible the issue is on their end.

Brian, can you verify if uninstalling nautilus-dropbox fixes the problem? And if reinstalling it triggers it again?

If removing nautilus-dropbox doesn't fix the problem, try the same with nautilus-share.

It would be great if you could provide a gdb backtrace, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace to learn how to create a backtrace.

I can confirm removing nautilus-dropbox fixes the problem and reinstalling it triggers it again! i will do a back trace in the next hour or so when i am back at my computer :-)

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

I installed the older nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1, same issue. I'll attach a backtrace shortly.

Here's a backtrace of the problem I'm getting.

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ii nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.2 file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
ii nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 Dropbox integration for Nautilus

Sorry for the comment spam. I have the same issue with nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5 as well.

can't do more of a backtrace when nautilus crashes it freezes my terminal and it won't except copy/paste or typed in commands!!

Why did that get reassigned to nautilus? The comments and stacktraces confirm it's a nautilus-dropbox issue

Apparently this bug affects people who have enabled PPA with developement versions of glib. Anyone that is affected, please post the output of this command: dpkg-query -W libglib2.0-0

It's not yet clear whether the bug is in glib or in nautilus-dropbox.

~$ dpkg-query -W libglib2.0-0
libglib2.0-0 2.31.17+git20120215.eafb108c-0ubuntu1~11.10~ricotz0

goller@tdw:~$ dpkg-query -W libglib2.0-0
libglib2.0-0 2.31.18-0ubuntu1

Here is my backtrace for this nautilus/dropbox issue. This is with the debug glib.

Adding more backtrace information from nautilus-dropbox.

libglib2.0-0 2.31.18-0ubuntu1

FYI, this happened today after installing updates. There was no update for Dropbox, but libglib2.0 went from 2.31.16 to 2.31.18.

I think I've tracked it down...

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.31/glib-2.31.18.news

glib did this change
 * g_async_queue_timed_pop has been deprecated in favor of
  the new g_async_queue_timeout_pop, which uses relative
  delays in microseconds instead of a GTimeVal.

and the exact change in g_async_queue_timed_pop

+ if (end_time != NULL)
+ {
+ m_end_time = g_get_monotonic_time () +
+ (end_time->tv_sec * G_USEC_PER_SEC + end_time->tv_usec -
+ g_get_real_time ());
+ }
+ else
+ m_end_time = -1;
+

end_time->tv_sec * G_USEC_PER_SEC + end_time->tv_usec - g_get_real_time () returns a value far less than 0 and it causes
the m_end_time to be less than 0.

Therefore, this sets m_end_time to negative creating an invalid argument to be passed to pthread_cond_wait.

I think just casting end_time->tv_sec to gint64 is all that is needed.

Problem surfaced for me after installing todays 12.04 updates

Chris, thanks for tracking it down. Do you feel like reporting it upstream? I don't see the bug yet on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&version=2.31.x

I have added glib to the list of affected packages since the underlying bug is there.

darkrain@rain:~$ nautilus
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.7.1
Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 'Invalid argument': pthread_cond_timedwait. Aborting.
Aborted (core dumped)

darkrain@rain:~$ dpkg-query -W libglib2.0-0
libglib2.0-0 2.31.18-0ubuntu1

steps to recreate problem is: as simple as open nautilus and click on any folder.

Thanks Chris for the investigation, I raised the issue on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669670 and will ping upstream on IRC later as well

I have also : libglib2.0-0 2.31.18-0ubuntu1

I have the problem after installed some Precise updates. It is caused due to 2.31.18-0ubuntu1.

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.31.18-0ubuntu2

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glib2.0 (2.31.18-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_queue_overflow.patch: git patch, fix an overview issue
    leading to nautilus-dropbox segfaults (lp: #932627)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:47:04 +0100

I just got affected by the problem after rebooting after today's update, removing nautilus dropbox fixed it. It looks like I am using glib2.0.

Man help me i have also same problem
my glib version is ----
libglib2.0-0 2.32.1-0ubuntu2

i have also tried to remove dropbox but the broblem continues.

see what to do i have latest version of glib ,do i have to downgrade my glib

same problem Zoki reports

nautilus --no-desktop "fix" the problem.

It affects me, but I have the package dropbox installed (the package from Dropbox's website) as opposed to nautilus-dropbox. This is the error I get upon entering ONLY the Dropbox folder (every other folder works fine, but it used to not work at all):

Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 1.6.0

(nautilus:10191): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:10191): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:10191): Gtk-WARNING **: Refusing to add non-unique action 'NautilusDropbox::browse' to action group 'DirExtensionsMenuGroup'
Segmentation fault