GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 767106
Nautilus goes into 'Sleeping' state and needs to be manually restarted before used again
Last modified: 2017-12-19 18:28:07 UTC
I have recently found that after upgrading to GNOME 3.20 on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 that Nautilus randomly will suddenly go into the state 'Sleeping' and then although all applications will be able to be clicked off when clicking on the desktop, no other interactions with the desktop will be able to occur, for instance I am unable to select or drag anything on the desktop nor can I access the right-click menu nor open any icons. If I then go into the Activities Overview and attempt to open Nautilus nothing happens, in fact the only way seemingly to solve this problem is to manually end the Nautilus process and then restart it again in the normal way, after doing this all works fine until it decides to have nap again. This has happened at least 3 times so far, 2 twice in the same session. More information including logs and other system information can be found here where I initially reported the bug through apport: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1587854
Has anyone else faced this problem? Wondering why it says "Confirmed" in Launchpad. When nautilus freezes, can you please attach gdb to it to get a stacktrace? See https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/Bugzilla/GettingTraces
(In reply to André Klapper from comment #1) > When nautilus freezes, can you please attach gdb to it to get a stacktrace? > See https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/Bugzilla/GettingTraces Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!