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Nautilus hangs / freezes accessing home directory

Asked by Eric Amundson

Strange thing started happening a few days ago: When I access nautilus from the Places menu and open my home directory (named eric) nautilus always freezes.

I can open subdirectories and other bookmarks such as Documents, Pictures, etc and browse files, but the second I browse to my main home directory, nautilus freezes. I can click any icons for sub-folders in my home folder, but nautilus will hang and, within a few seconds, turn grey and stay that way.

The only way to get nautilus to close is by forcing a quit.

I can access any of the files and folders by CLI, or by using emelFM2.

I've looked all around the forums and the 'Ask a Question' section of Launchpad, but am not finding the cause.

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Eric Amundson (sewmyheadon) said : 		#1

A little update: I think I found the issue.

After much searching, I found an old bug report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/+bug/30010

. . . which seemed to blame the crashiness on folders containing an svg image.

Interestingly enough, I was messing around in Inkscape the other day trying to create a business card and saved my work into my home folder as an svg. As soon as I deleted or moved that file Nautilus no longer crashes.

I'm investigating now to see if there's a bug report that matches this.

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wulf solter (wulfsolter) said : 		#2

got same problem? anyone?

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