This happened for me after an update from Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. I fixed it by:
* Purging nautilus with apt-get * Removing ~/.config/nautilus I suspect the last step may fix it alone but I've not been able to recreate the initial issue to verify. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to 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 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs