Package: nautilus Followup-For: Bug #930294 Nautilus found files with duplicate filenames in some libreoffice templates in the Templates folder and was looping on that. The moment I deleted the content, nautilus behaviour came back to normal. Question is why was nautilus looping forever?
-- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (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 0.3.1-4 ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-4 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1 ii gvfs 1.38.1-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1 ii libgexiv2-2 0.10.9-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2 ii libglib2.0-data 2.58.3-2 ii libgnome-autoar-0-0 0.2.3-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.30.5-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 2.1.8-2 ii nautilus-data 3.30.5-2 ii shared-mime-info 1.10-1 ii tracker 2.1.8-2 Versions of packages nautilus recommends: ii gnome-sushi 3.30.0-2 ii gvfs-backends 1.38.1-5 ii librsvg2-common 2.44.10-2.1 Versions of packages nautilus suggests: ii eog 3.28.4-2+b1 ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.30.2-3 pn nautilus-extension-brasero <none> ii nautilus-sendto 3.8.6-3 ii totem 3.32.0-1 ii vlc [mp3-decoder] 3.0.7-1 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.17-2 -- no debconf information