I've got something very comparable: "nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail()". I think it is best to add my info
When creating an empty image file, the thumbnail-function gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail() makes Nautilus crash. This error is only given when running nautilus as root, as normal user it just crashes without any message. To get this error: - open Nautilus - go to your home-directory with Nautilus - create an empty jpg or png in your home-directory ("gedit file.png" and then save this file) - wait up to 3 seconds - Nautilus crashes >From what I read form the code, it seems not to check if data-size is 0 (gdk_pixbuf_get_byte_length is not used), or gets a non-zero width and length. See https://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-The- GdkPixbuf-Structure.html#GdkPixbuf for documentation and https://github.com/GNOME/libgnomeui/blob/master/libgnomeui/gnome- thumbnail.c for the source. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1203349 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in _gdk_pixbuf_new_from_uri_at_scale() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1203349/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs