Nautilus won't launch [16.04]

Question

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?

After seeing what you have tried already, this looks like something you can't fix yourself. I suggest you report this as a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/. — Jos, May 10 '16 at 08:32
sudo killall nautilus; sudo apt-get install --reinstall nautilus nautilus-data gnome-system-monitor; journalctl -f; nautilus -c — rwcommand, Sep 02 '23 at 09:37

score 156 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '17 at 16:14

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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>

answered Jan 23 '17 at 16:14

Efi Kaltirimidou

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That is what sometimes happens on my Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and your solution is exactly what I've needed. – hata Oct 30 '17 at 14:30
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Or you can kill it from process monitor. – Vicky Dec 09 '17 at 14:53
wow.. this piece of code helped me. Thanks – MagePsycho Jan 23 '18 at 11:43
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Commands didn't help me (or maybe I used the wrong ID), but killing nautilus from the system monitor did it for me. Thanks! – Nat Naydenova Mar 25 '18 at 19:29
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Still works on Ubuntu 20.04 – Martin Medro Nov 20 '20 at 04:40
For me a simple pkill nautilus did the same trick, on Ubuntu 16.04. Skips looking up any process ID. – Jacques Aug 22 '22 at 13:08

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '16 at 10:20

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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.

answered May 10 '16 at 10:20

Florian Diesch

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That file had been missing completely. Solution worked, thank you. I thought it could be caused by some broken or missing file. Are you specialist or do you found out that somehow? Is there a way how to recognize, which package has broken or missing file (at least the missing one, broken files are always difficult to spot)? Why nautilus-data cannot be removed if I purge nautilus and with all its no longer used dependencies (is it used by another gnome-based package)? – aleskva May 10 '16 at 17:26
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in my case it still doesn't work. I had to execute sudo nautilus ... – bogdan.rusu Nov 12 '16 at 14:25
@bogdan.rusu Same here – Jan M. Dec 23 '16 at 12:06
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The correct answer should be @Efi Kaltirimidou – Tai Christian May 23 '19 at 08:00

score 19 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '18 at 22:19

19

killall nautilus

will kill all instances.

answered Aug 05 '18 at 22:19

Orion

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By far the simplest solution. Should be the top answer. – wordsforthewise Mar 13 '21 at 04:20

Nautilus won't launch [16.04]

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