Initializing nautilus-gdu extension Segmentation Fault after using assogiate

[patmalcolm91]

I'm running 9.10 and just installed assogiate and used it to change the icon of a filetype. Now, nautilus crashes every time I try to run it with:

(nautilus:22736): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

** (nautilus:22736): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:22736): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:22736): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Segmentation fault

and here's a relevant part of the output of running "gdb nautilus":

Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
[New Thread 0x7fffebf72910 (LWP 24620)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe122c910 (LWP 24621)]
[New Thread 0x7fffdaf14910 (LWP 24622)]
[Thread 0x7fffe122c910 (LWP 24621) exited]
[New Thread 0x7fffe122c910 (LWP 24623)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd9e4a910 (LWP 24624)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd9649910 (LWP 24625)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff57ff821 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0

If I run "gksu nautilus", it opens fine, leading me to believe this is a preference file corruption or something.

I've tried the following:
*completely removing and re-istalling nautilus
*removing ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

[Kismet]

Try removing
~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
directory.
It's kinda like file browser cache(I think) that can get corrupted.

[jdsanchez473]

thank you!

i was having the same problem and removing this folder fixed it. For those of you who do not know how to fix this situation do the following:

Press ALT+F2


Type

gnome-terminal

Type

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

Restart your computer and you should be good to go, if not then this isn't your problem

[jango4]

Hi!

I know, this is a rather old thread, but i wanted to thank you.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 my nautilus crashed randomly when clicking on items or opening folders, or even on just scrolling.
I was frustrated - a computer does not work, if the file browser crashes all the time...
In the logs i also found "Initializing nautilus-gdu extension Segmentation Fault" and Google brought me here.

And removing rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata worked great. No crash any more. Thanks!

[nothingspecial]

Glad it helped you.

But please don't bump it to the top.

Closed.