Sfair’s blog

Recently I upgrade a PC from Ubuntu Fesity to Gusty using the update manager. When the upgrade was completed, nautilus presented a strange behavior: it crashed every time I tried to open a folder, returning the following message:

file nautilus-navigation-window.c: line 834 (activate_nth_short_list_item)

I looked for this error in ubuntu forum, but I couldn’t get what’s wrong. I just discovered this crash happens only when you upgrade your system using the update manager.

There are two ways (at least the ways I know) to solve temporally this problem:

(a) Change the view mode on nautilus to view as list
(b) Downgrade some packages (nautilus, libnautilus e nautilus-data):

cd /var/cache/apt/archives
sudo apt-get install libtrackerclient-dev
sudo dpkg --force-all -i nautilus_1%3a2.20.0-0ubuntu7_i386.deb libnautilus-extension1_1%3a2.20.0-0ubuntu7_i386.deb nautilus-data_1%3a2.20.0-0ubuntu7_all.deb

This bug was reported and a patch was released to fix it (SVN version is ok). Probably it will be available in the next nautilus update.

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