Public bug reported:
A few weeks ago Thunar started crashing when I tried to navigate any
more than 2 or 3 levels from the folder shown at startup. Now I can't
even start Thunar from the GUI, and when I start it from a terminal all
I get is "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". Nautilus does the same.
Dolphin and Krusader don't. Earlier when I started gedit and tried to
open a file that required navigating any more than 2 or 3 levels from
where the dialog started, there would be delay when I selected the last
folder to open and then gedit would crash. Now when I start gedit from
the gui, nothing happens; and from a terminal I get the same
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)" error. It doesn't matter what program
I use, if I try to open something that requires navigating more than 2
or 3 levels from where the open dialog started, there's a delay when I
select the last folder to open and then that program crashes with the
same error. However, if I navigate to a folder in Krusader and double-
click on a .JPG file, Kolourpaint opens with the file loaded; then, if I
try to save the file in a different folder, I can. However, double-
clicking or using "open with" on a .TXT file does not successfully start
gedit, though it will start mousepad...but if I then try to save the
text file in a path that requires navigating down a couple of levels,
mousepad crashes. Note that all these crashes are registered as such and
generate the GUI error "The application [name] has closed unexpectedly.
Send a problem report to the developers?", which I do; though I'm never
asked anything about what I was doing when the crash occurred.
I did find that programs installed with snap didn't have the same
problems, but the snap installation isolates them in a way that doesn't
allow me to navigate anywhere outside the snap folder. I have done
recovery starts of Ubuntu, checked the file system, checked system
memory, and found nothing wrong. Firefox and Chromium work find, until I
try to save a download in a folder more than 2 or 3 levels deeper from
the one the save/save as dialog starts in, or try to load a file more
than 2 or 3 levels deeper from the one the open dialog starts in.
Navigating up doesn't seem to be a problem, and navigating within shared
folders on the machine from the network works fine.
If I start Win XP Pro in a VirtualBox VM, navigation into shared folders
using the Windows file explorer isn't a problem. If I start Sigil and
select open, the selection window appears, nothing happens, and then
Sigil crashes. Starting from a terminal tells me that Sigil is
generating the same segmentation fault as above. However, if I start
Sigil and open a file from the File menu's list of previously opened
files, no problem and no problem saving changes...as long as I don't try
to save the changes somewhere that requires navigating 2 or 3 levels
down.
I don't know if this is a linux system bug or a XFCE-4 bug, but it makes
the machine pretty frustrating.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: thunar 1.6.15-0ubuntu1.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-118.119-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-118-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Sep 23 23:49:59 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-29 (299 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: thunar (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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All directory navigation more than a couple of levels crashes.
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