Package: nautilus Version: 3.30.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #909362 I had the same symptoms.
Thanks for the workaround. Nautilus starts normally after I deleted the $HOME/.cache/tracker/ dir. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages nautilus depends on: ii bubblewrap 0.3.1-2 ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-4 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1 ii gvfs 1.38.1-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-1 ii libc6 2.27-8 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-1 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-6 ii libgexiv2-2 0.10.8-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.1-2 ii libglib2.0-data 2.58.1-2 ii libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.2.3-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.1-2 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.30.3-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-4 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-4 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-3 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 2.1.6-1 ii nautilus-data 3.30.3-1 ii shared-mime-info 1.10-1 ii tracker 2.1.6-1 Versions of packages nautilus recommends: ii gnome-sushi 3.30.0-1 ii gvfs-backends 1.38.1-1 ii librsvg2-common 2.44.9-1 Versions of packages nautilus suggests: ii eog 3.28.4-1 ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.30.2-1 pn nautilus-extension-brasero <none> ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.6-2 ii totem 3.26.2-1 ii vlc [mp3-decoder] 3.0.4-3+b3 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.17-1 -- no debconf information