Nautilus silently fails

[Philop]

Hello great people of this community,

I am using Ubuntu Natty 11.04 and am experiencing problems with Nautilus. At random, it seems, it will close itself silently. E.g. if I open nautilus, and browse to my documents, I can leave that nautilus window open, and after a couple of seconds it will *poof* dissapear.

I really wouldn't know how to troubleshoot this. Could anyone point me in a direction on how to solve this issue?

Thanks!

[jerrrys]

have you just tried reloading nautilus and see if you can get lucky?

[Philop]

Yep. Did all kind of things. Even deleting the .recently-used file.
It all doesn't help.

I guess the problem lies somewhere in the configuration of nautilus. What (configuration) files does nautilus use which are located in my home folder??

[jerrrys]

Im not familiar with 11o4, but in gnome i think i would be tempted to reinstall gdm

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Open nautilus from terminal with

nautilus

and see if you get any error messages after it crashes.

[Philop]

Tried that. Never seen one message!

[Philop]

Bump!

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Try this: after a crash, ctrl+alt+F1 to go to tty1. See if you get any error messages there (ctrl+alt+F7 to go back to tty7 - graphical session).

[Dave_L]

What (configuration) files does nautilus use which are located in my home folder??

In Ubuntu 10.04, the configuration is accessed by:

gconf-editor

Then navigate to apps >> nautilus

These settings are actually located in ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus

[Philop]

Try this: after a crash, ctrl+alt+F1 to go to tty1. See if you get any error messages there (ctrl+alt+F7 to go back to tty7 - graphical session).

Nope. No error messages whatsoever.

BUT I can now easily reproduce the error and found a message in syslog:

Jul  4 09:37:31 Lorena kernel: [15175.194310] nautilus[9051]: segfault at 18 ip 00000000004ae344 sp 00007fff7deb8440 error 4 in nautilus[400000+1dd000]
Jul  4 09:37:50 Lorena kernel: [15193.974484] nautilus[9569]: segfault at 18 ip 00000000004ae344 sp 00007fff29e98f30 error 4 in nautilus[400000+1dd000]
Jul  4 09:39:07 Lorena kernel: [15270.887938] nautilus[9986]: segfault at 18 ip 00000000004ae344 sp 00007fff5c3d69e0 error 4 in nautilus[400000+1dd000]
Jul  4 09:41:12 Lorena kernel: [15395.748133] nautilus[11269]: segfault at 18 ip 00000000004ae344 sp 00007fffdfadf980 error 4 in nautilus[400000+1dd000]

So when nautilus fails I get a segfault? Is this helpfull?