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I've recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 and I cannot get Nautilus to open. Clicking on the icon does nothing and I've already tried un-installing and reinstalling it and the error persists. So I have tried to to launch it from the terminal and these error messages are returned: 

(nautilus:27014): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
(nautilus:27014): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
Could not register the application: Timeout was reached
(nautilus:27014): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
(nautilus:27014): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(nautilus:27014): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_object: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

I'm not certain if I should just scrap nautilus for some other file manager or perhaps there is a solution to this problem?

terdon
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pingwinZloty
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You can try restart nautilus

$ killall nautilus
$ nautilus -q

then try launching it again

$ nautilus

It happens to me that sometimes something - not yet understood - doesn't start properly. The above recipe fixes it.

Andrea Borga
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