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ionot66

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Registered: 2025-12-13

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[nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the forum, and if I'm posting in the wrong channel, please excuse me in advance.

I'm running Gnome 49 and I'm having a problem with Nautilus, the file manager.

I assume it's due to an update, as I haven't done anything in particular.

When I launch Nautilus using the shortcut on the dash, Nautilus doesn't launch.

I open a terminal and type nautilus, then press Enter.

And this is what I get:

[ ionot66@HP ] [ ~ ]
██ nautilus
** Message: 14:48:08.558: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gi/module.py:142: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion 'g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
g_type = info.get_g_type()
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gi/module.py:142: Warning: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
g_type = info.get_g_type()
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gi/module.py:184: Warning: g_type_get_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed
type_ = g_type.pytype

I searched the web and this forum too, but I couldn't find a solution.

Thank you in advance to everyone for your suggestions.

Scimmia

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Is that the entire output? It doesn't say anything about crashing or exiting.

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Is there a stale instance?

ps aux | grep -i nautilus

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Hello and thank you for the feedback.

Yes, that's all that's displayed.

I don't think there is an obsolete instance.

I'll give you the result of the command you mentioned.

[ ionot66@HP ] [ ~ ]
██ ps aux | grep -i nautilus
ionot66   164695  0.0  0.0   6648  4308 pts/0    S+   21:35   0:00 grep --color=auto -i nautilus

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

strace -f -o /tmp/nautilus.strace nautilus
cat /tmp/nautilus.strace | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st # this will upload the file, maybe check its size and in doubt gzip it

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Hello

I'll give you the result of the command you mentioned.

http://0x0.st/KCdZ.txt

Last edited by ionot66 (2025-12-13 23:16:25)

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Edit your post, remove the spam, post the link you got from 0x0.st

Edit: then

pacman -Qikk nautilus localsearch
ps aux | grep -i localse
loginctl session-status
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

Last edited by seth (2025-12-13 22:30:34)

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Hello and thank you

I'll give you the result of the command you mentioned.

[ ionot66@HP ] [ /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ] 
██ pacman -Qikk nautilus localsearch
Nom                      : nautilus
Version                  : 49.2-1
Description              : Default file manager for GNOME
Architecture             : x86_64
URL                      : [url]https://apps.gnome.org/Nautilus/[/url]
Licences                 : GPL-3.0-or-later
Groupes                  : gnome
Fournit                  : --
Dépend de                : cairo  dconf  gcc-libs  gdk-pixbuf2  glib2  glibc  gnome-autoar  gnome-desktop-4
                           graphene  gst-plugins-base-libs  gstreamer  gtk4  gvfs  hicolor-icon-theme  icu
                           libadwaita  libcloudproviders  libgexiv2  libportal  libportal-gtk4  libx11
                           localsearch  pango  tinysparql  wayland  xdg-user-dirs-gtk
                           libnautilus-extension.so=4-64
Dépendances opt.         : --
Requis par               : nautilus-admin-gtk4  nautilus-python  nautilus-share  xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Optionnel pour           : --
Est en conflit avec      : --
Remplace                 : --
Taille installée         : 13,58 MiB
Paqueteur                : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Compilé le               : lun. 24 nov. 2025 06:26:18
Installé le              : ven. 12 déc. 2025 22:58:33
Motif d’installation     : Explicitement installé
Script d’installation    : Non
Validé par               : Signature

nautilus : 411 fichiers au total, 0 fichier modifié
Nom                      : localsearch
Version                  : 3.10.2-1
Description              : Filesystem indexer and metadata extractor
Architecture             : x86_64
URL                      : [url]https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/localsearch/[/url]
Licences                 : GPL-2.0-or-later
Groupes                  : --
Fournit                  : tracker3-miners=3.10.2
Dépend de                : dconf  exempi  ffmpeg  gcc-libs  gexiv2  giflib  glib2  glibc  gst-plugins-base-libs
                           gstreamer  gupnp-dlna  icu  libcue  libexif  libgsf  libgudev  libgxps  libiptcdata
                           libjpeg-turbo  libosinfo  libpng  libseccomp  libtiff  libwebp  libxml2  poppler-glib
                           tinysparql  totem-plparser  upower  libtinysparql-3.0.so=0-64
Dépendances opt.         : --
Requis par               : gnome-music  gnome-photos  nautilus
Optionnel pour           : grilo-plugins  rygel
Est en conflit avec      : tracker3-miners<=3.7.3-2
Remplace                 : tracker3-miners<=3.7.3-2
Taille installée         : 2,90 MiB
Paqueteur                : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Compilé le               : mer. 10 déc. 2025 12:02:22
Installé le              : sam. 13 déc. 2025 21:05:53
Motif d’installation     : Explicitement installé
Script d’installation    : Non
Validé par               : Signature

localsearch : 320 fichiers au total, 0 fichier modifié

██ [ ionot66@HP ] [ /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ] 
██ ps aux | grep -i localse
ionot66     2822  3.3  1.0 951924 82896 ?        DNsl déc.13   3:47 /usr/lib/localsearch-3
ionot66    23200 64.6  0.7 751092 56596 ?        SNl  00:10   0:18 /usr/lib/localsearch-extractor-3 --socket-fd 3
ionot66    23245  0.0  0.0   6648  4304 pts/0    S+   00:11   0:00 grep --color=auto -i localse

██ [ ionot66@HP ] [ /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ] 
██ loginctl session-status
3 - ionot66 (1000)
  Since: Sat 2025-12-13 22:19:02 CET; 1h 52min ago
  State: active
 Leader: 1535 (gdm-session-wor)
   Seat: seat0; vc2
    TTY: tty2
 Remote: no
Service: gdm-password
   Type: wayland
  Class: user
   Idle: no
   Unit: session-3.scope
         ├─1535 "gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm-password]"
         ├─2204 /usr/lib/gdm-wayland-session /usr/bin/gnome-session
         └─2219 /usr/lib/gnome-session-init-worker gnome

déc. 13 22:19:03 HP systemd[1]: Started Session 3 of User ionot66.
déc. 13 22:19:03 HP gdm-password][1535]: gkr-pam: unlocked login keyring
déc. 13 22:19:04 HP gnome-session-i[2219]: Starting GNOME session target: gnome-session-way
land@gnome.target
déc. 13 22:46:14 HP gdm-password][7671]: gkr-pam: unlocked login keyring
déc. 13 23:09:01 HP gdm-password][9572]: gkr-pam: unlocked login keyring

██ [ ionot66@HP ] [ /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas ] 
██ echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

Last edited by ionot66 (2025-12-13 23:42:15)

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Please use [code][/code] tags. Edit your post in this regard.

ionot66     2822  3.3  1.0 951924 82896 ?        DNsl déc.13   3:47 /usr/lib/localsearch-3

Do you see the uppercase "D", the process is waiting for some IO, doesn't respond to dbus and nautilus legit doesn't start if it cannot talk to the surveillance daemon…
Check the system journal for IO errors or anything related to localsearch - this might just be a bug in the tracker-replacement but could also be because of some hardware issues (notably your disk!)

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

hello
I installed Nemo to have a file manager while waiting to find a solution,
and Nemo is working.
Could you give me the command to view the system log to see if there are any I/O errors?

Thank you for your time spent on my problem.

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

An immediate solution would be to snipe that process out of uninterruptible sleep, in doubt by rebooting.
But again: could be indicating a hardware problem…

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

hello

I'll give you the result of the command you mentioned.

http://0x0.st/KCnP.txt

seth

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

Have you looked at it?
It's 13MB spam

déc. 13 23:56:45 HP localsearch-3[21530]: (localsearch-extractor-3:21530): Tracker-WARNING **: 23:56:45.598: Task for 'file:///home/ionot66/Musique/Son-alarme/vocal/Audacity_projets/veuillez_quitter_les_lieux_data/eff/d1f/eff1f91d.au' finished with error: Could not get any metadata for uri:'file:///home/ionot66/Musique/Son-alarme/vocal/Audacity_projets/veuillez_quitter_les_lieux_data/eff/d1f/eff1f91d.au' and mime:'audio/basic'

The scanner seems to particularly not to like files in /home/ionot66/Musique/ but there's more

gnome-shell complains a lot about

déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockContainer [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashToDock] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor unnamed [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashSlideContainer] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockBox [StBoxLayout] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor bms-dash-backgroundgroup [MetaBackgroundGroup] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor bms-dash-blurred-widget [StWidget] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockContainer [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashToDock] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor unnamed [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashSlideContainer] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockBox [StBoxLayout] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor bms-dash-backgroundgroup [MetaBackgroundGroup] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor bms-dash-blurred-widget [StWidget] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockContainer [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashToDock] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor unnamed [Gjs_dash-to-dock_micxgx_gmail_com_docking_DashSlideContainer] is on because it needs an allocation.
déc. 13 22:20:03 HP gnome-shell[2327]: Can't update stage views actor dashtodockBox [StBoxLayout] is on because it needs an allocation.

Did you enable some debug flags?
I've rarely seen so much spam in a journal.

Edit: x-ref, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=299586
Also https://www.lorenzobettini.it/2025/03/d … 47-and-48/
Apparently you can trick that thing by removing the extractor rules

I haven't but maybe you wanna give https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q … =&flagged= a try…

Last edited by seth (2025-12-14 00:05:46)

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ionot66

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Re: [nautilus] Unable to open the file manager

hello

No, I haven't enabled certain debug indicators. I don't have the level.

I'll try what you suggest.

Thank you.