Nautilus bug

[dbutler1986]

When I double-click a folder location on the desktop, all the icons disappear for several seconds while the cursor switches to the 'waiting' cursor, and then the file browser never opens. If I manually run 'nautilus' from a terminal the folder opens, but when I double-click any item inside the file browser window disappears along with the desktop icons. The icons come back but the file browser doesn't, and whatever I double-clicked didn't open (be it video or audio or text or whatever). How can I find out what's wrong?

[jpeddicord]

Sounds like nautilus is crashing. You can grab a crash dump to report a bug about it by following the directions on "How to enable apport" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport. Restart your system after doing those instructions, and open a folder to do what you described. A few moments later, Apport should pop up with a report to automatically send in.