Hi, I’m looking for help figuring out an issue with nautilus on a new ubuntu 22.04 machine (if this is an not the appropriate place to ask such questions, I apologize).
When I click the “Files” application, the window pops up momentarily, but closes almost immediately after opening. When running nautilus from the command line, I get a lot of error messages before an eventual segfault:
$ nautilus
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'TerminalNautilus'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'TerminalNautilusMenuItem'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'EvPropertiesPlugin'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'NautilusNste'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'NautilusFileRoller'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'TotemPropertiesPlugin'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:34.933: Two different plugins tried to register 'NautilusImagesPropertiesPageProvider'.
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:34.933: g_type_add_interface_dynamic: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:35.029: invalid cast from 'TerminalNautilus' to '<invalid>'
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:35.029: invalid cast from 'NautilusNste' to '<invalid>'
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:21:35.029: invalid cast from 'TerminalNautilus' to '<invalid>'
(org.gnome.Nautilus:498016): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:21:35.030: g_object_new_valist: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Can anyone help me diagnose what is going wrong here, or how to fix it? The initial message says something about multiple plugins-- is there a way I can locate these plugins and disable them, or do a clean reinstall that fixes these issues?
The only resolution I’ve seen on stackoverflow and similar to this kind of problem is a complete OS reinstall, which I’m hoping to avoid.
Thank you
edit: nautilus --version outputs GNOME nautilus 42.2