Segmentation fault running Thunar as root with pkexec

Submitted by Paul

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#14476)

Description

On upgrade to 1.8.0 I can no longer run thunar as root with the following commands:

pkexec dbus-launch thunar / pkexec thunar /

Thunar opens about half the time. In any case as soon as I try to enter a new directory it crashes with a segmentation fault:

[x@xlaptop ~]$ pkexec dbus-launch thunar /

*[THUNAR OPENS]*
*[DOUBLECLICK /etc]*

(thunar:2096): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:16:22.440: g_object_get_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(thunar:2096): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:16:22.440: gtktreemodel.c:2495: bad row reference, proxy has no outstanding row references
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have downgraded to version 1.6.15 for now.

Incidentally the UI also changed for the worse in my opinion. It looks like you changed to bold fonts. This creates much more line-spacing and means I can now fit/see much less on screen than before.

Arch Linux

Version: 1.8.0