I recently switched back to Zorin OS from Debian, and this issue is driving me crazy. I usually encounter this problem 6 to 7 times a day and have to open the terminal and run killall -9 nautilus so the file manager closes completely and I can reopen it. It’s really frustrating for an operating system
Even though I solved the issue with what I said before, I was still getting error sometimes.
I found the issue that python3-nautilus still had some leftovers.
Debugging it was easy, just run nautilus on the terminal and it's gonna show some warning such as:
_ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: 'No module named gi.*gobject’)*
(nautilus:5395): Nautilus-Python-WARNING: pygobject initialization failed*
(nautilus:5395): Nautilus-Python-WARNING: nautilus_python_init_python failed*
This initialization was causing the issues. Removing everything about this solved my issue.
Hope it helps @Abdulhalim @fegauthier
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Hi. Using Zorin 18 Pro on my Dell G7 7700 (work machine). LUKS enabled, full M.2 drive used with default FS. 32Gb RAM, no emulation enabled, clean install, fully patched as of today. Trying to backup my work data in increments to an external USB3 Transcend 4Tb drive with NTFS enabled and Bitlocker. Copy starts with high throughput then trickles down to almost nothing. I cannot kill Nautilus. Kill, Terminate, nothing works. CLI commands do nothing. I did not try and reinstall Nautilus though. I love Zorin, I've paid for it, but I cannot use it if a basic 32Gb batch copy fails like this, with me having to run CHKDSK on a Windows OS to correct forcefully dismounting the external drive just to shut down Zorin. I'm not a linux guru but this has happened to me on Zorin Pro on my desktop at home with a different external. What does work is using a 3.5" external drive with AC power. The copy always works done this way with a powered external drive. Zorin is not ready for the Enterprise environment, as much as I wish it were, and for me to have to go back to Windows is out of the question. File copying.... How much more basic an operation can one get and hope to have work, but it doesn't. At least not for me with the 2.5" USB drives and my various machines. I wish I could use an app like SuperCopier on Zorin but I suspect it will use Nautilus and not resolve my issue. Not even opening the terminal and executing Sync helps the situation.
Can confirm the same issue occurring randomly.
ZorinOS is installed on my primary 500GB SSD, with a second data 2TB SSD with my files/games etc. on. No Python errors when running nautilus on the terminal.
Second disk is mounted automatically to /media/data/. Fstab was modified using the built in mount options in the Disks app, not by hand.
/dev/disk/by-uuid/78e06637-c5df-4e72-a7f5-dd036820944e /media/jay/Data auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
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UPDATE: Hi all. I installed Krusader (looks just like Total Commander). I've copied over 300Gb of data to the same external drive without one issue today. It just works. It needs Kate for text file viewing within the application if that's important to you. Consider my whining over.
Hi,
I'm having similar issues with nautilus, as in: It won't open anymore at all. I'm using dolphin right now to navigate, but Nautilus is kinda important for this OS..
If I try to open it from the terminal, it freezes while "Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files". I've tried re-installing, killing, restarting the system. So far nothing helped.
This install of Zorin 18 Core is no two weeks old and I haven't added anything (knowingly) to Nautilus. Happy to try "Files" (Nautilus) is not responding & Unkillable Process - #22 by sglbl but I don't know how exactly. @sglbl could you elaborate on how to remove the directories?
Thank you!
Take a look at this:
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My case was specific to extensions and OneDrive integration.
Yours probably have another issue.
Unfortunately they refuse to help and blame us:
You can make other file explorer such as thunar (or dolphin..) default:
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