When opening files from nautilus it complains "Failed to execute default File Manager. Input/Output error"
As mentioned here, opening files with "Open With Other Application" works. This started in for me yesterday after applying updates. I did not change anything in gnome configuration. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.5+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages nautilus depends on: ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-2 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.27.90-1 ii gvfs 1.34.1-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.26.1-3 ii libc6 2.26-6 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.10-1 ii libcairo2 1.15.10-1 ii libexempi3 2.4.4-1 ii libexif12 0.6.21-4 ii libgail-3-0 3.22.28-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.3-2 ii libglib2.0-data 2.54.3-2 ii libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.2.2-3 ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.26.2-6 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.28-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.26.2-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libselinux1 2.7-2+b1 ii libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 2.0.3-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii nautilus-data 3.26.2-2 ii shared-mime-info 1.9-2 Versions of packages nautilus recommends: ii gnome-sushi 3.24.0-3 ii gvfs-backends 1.34.1-2 ii librsvg2-common 2.40.20-2 Versions of packages nautilus suggests: ii eog 3.26.2-3 ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.26.0-3 ii nautilus-extension-brasero 3.12.2-4 ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.6-2 ii totem 3.26.0-3 ii tracker 2.0.3-1 ii vlc [mp3-decoder] 3.0.0-1 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.16-1