To my surprise, the bug stopped happening few days ago so I cant replicate. Search works again as intended.
It might have been an update but I am not even sure which one could have fixed the issue; So, until further notice, for me it seems solved... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852053 Title: Nautilus Crashes when opening search field and entering first character Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Upgraded to 19.10 one week ago. Then all worked fine. Nothing major changed as far as I know. But now: - click in Dock on the file stack icon to open Nautilus - stay in Home or browse to any folder - click Ctrl-F to open search field at the top of window - enter any character as first character of search pattern - Nautilus immediately crashes and window disappears immediately. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1852053/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp