I am a relatively new Linux user using ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It has been going pretty well so far (with copious help from Google), but I have had an issue for the past couple days that I cannot resolve. My file explorer (nautilus) starts to get hung up on "loading" and displays only a blank screen. Attempting to force quit or end the processes leads to it not being able to be launched at all, with the following error:
(nautilus:19397): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: >g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
(nautilus:19397): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed
Could not register the application: Timeout was reached
(nautilus:19397): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
(nautilus:19397): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(nautilus:19397): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_object: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
I have found several instances of this issue, but none of the suggested fixes have worked for me. I've tried:
- running updates to ensure everything is up to date (using
sudo apt-get updateandsudo apt-get upgrade) - quitting via
nautilus -q - killing processes via the system monitor
- killing processes using
sudo killall nautilus && (nautilus &) - various combinations of the above
The only thing that works is restarting, but I'm trying to avoid having to restart several times a day when it decides to stop working. Any ideas? Not sure if I am missing another solution or if this is just a bug. It only started for me in the last couple days, so maybe it was an incompatible update?
