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Issue

When trying to view the properties of an image file on the desktop via the context menu, it only refreshes the desktop, and no window opens with properties as expected.
- Repeating this action crashes GNOME and the user gets thrown back to the GDM login screen.
When trying to view the properties of an image file on the desktop via the context menu, an error message is seen in /var/log/messages referring to a segfault in nautilus-desktop.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
GNOME desktop environment
Nautilus version 3.22.3-4 or below

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