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aleskva
Asked: 2016-05-11 00:00:28 +0800 CST

Nautilus won't launch [16.04]

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If I try to launch Nautilus in whatever way (from Unity, Terminal), it doesn't launch. Terminal gives me these outputs:

launch

name@machine:~$ nautilus

(nautilus:4367): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' is not installed

Trasovací/ladící past (SIGTRAP) (core dumped [obraz paměti uložen])

launch with sudo

name@machine:~$ sudo nautilus

(nautilus:4672): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(nautilus:4672): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' is not installed

Trasovací/ladící past (SIGTRAP) (core dumped [obraz paměti uložen])

check

name@machine:~$ nautilus -c
running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities
running nautilus_self_check_file_operations
running nautilus_self_check_directory

(nautilus:4689): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' is not installed

Trasovací/ladící past (SIGTRAP) (core dumped [obraz paměti uložen])

I tried to reinstall Nautilus (with purge), reboot, remove ~/.config/nautilus, step by step at first and then all at once but nothing worked. I haven't changed any configuration or made any significant changes in Ubuntu system since installation. Yesterday Nautilus worked, today doesn't. Does anybody know how to fix it?

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3 Answers

  1. For me terminating the running nautilus process and restarting it worked.

    ps awx | grep nautilus

    I found the process id and then terminated it with

    sudo kill -TERM <id>
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  2. Best Answer

    The schema org.gnome.nautilus.preferences is defined in the file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.nautilus.gschema.xml which is in the package nautilus-data. Maybe it got damaged somehow.

    Use

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus-data

    to install that package again.

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  3. killall nautilus

    will kill all instances.

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