I am still having problems. I tried removing, purging & reinstalling Nautilus; no joy.
Then I found this bug and tried: * Removing ~/.config/nautilus This worked. I have desktop icons again and a file manager. However, Nautilus has just one menu, titled "Files", and it contains no entries. A small narrow blank rectangle appears, nothing else. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622880 Title: nautilus crashes on Ubuntu 16.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1622880/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs