2010/6/2 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com
I've (partly) figured it out. The fault appears to be in an interaction with Nautilus. Nautilus is running because I use a Dropbox applet, which has a nautilus front-end.
I'm using Dropbox this way: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall and I don't need to install Nautilus at all.