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Nautilus crashes when trying to open another window by right-clicking the Nautilus icon on the dock and then selecting "Documents" (Ubuntu 21.04)

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When I right-click the Nautilus icon on my dock while at least one Nautilus window is already open, I can select "Documents" in the appearing menu. This should open another Nautilus window showing my ~/Documents folder, but instead, it causes all existing Nautilus windows to close. The same happens when I select "Downloads", "Music", "Pictures", or "Videos", but "New Window" works normally.

Screenshot of menu

If I open Nautilus from the command line and then do the things described above, I can see that it crashes with Segmentation fault (core dumped).
How can I fix this? Is this a known bug? I already tried reinstalling Nautilus and deleting ~/.nautilus, but it didn't help.

Update/Solution

Apparently, Wayland was causing the problem. Now I'm using Xorg and the bug has disappeared.

koyakun avatar
cn flag
Bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1934579
Tc14 avatar
ca flag
@koyakun Thank you for reporting this bug. But even if it gets fixed, I will still continue to use Xorg because Wayland causes a lot of other programs to crash/behave weirdly.
koyakun avatar
cn flag
Understood. Would you mind confirming the bug though please?
Tc14 avatar
ca flag
@koyakun I have confirmed that this bug affects me. Do I have to confirm something else?
koyakun avatar
cn flag
Thanks! That might be enough. Depends on the developers.
Carles Mateo avatar
cn flag
Can you `ls -hal ~` and paste the results?. In many cases thing like that are caused by inadvertently having set some permissions for root, excluding own user.
Tc14 avatar
ca flag
@Carles Mateo Sorry, I already reinstalled my system and I am now using 20.04.
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