Nautilus has gone gaga

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Sun Oct 10 12:08:11 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 12:20 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As always, the other half logs me out and then forgets to log out
> herself. I've logged her out and logged myself in.
> 
> Nautilus has gone. Totally vanished! It's listed with gnome-system-
> monitor (though nautilus-throbber is missing). Restarting gnome-
> settings-daemon does nothing. If nautilus controls the desktop backdrop,
> that part has failed as well
> 
> If I run nautilus -c from a terminal window, it gets to running
> nautilus_self_check_directory and then stops (no sort of flashing of
> disc activity). nautilus --browser doesn't start anything either.
> 
> As a "Win32" test, I have done a full reset with no change observed.
> Hosing the .nautilus directory does nothing either.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get nautilus working again?

Just an idea (messed up oaf and/or gconfd), but:

Log out. Log in on the console as root (just to not confuse processes),
kill all processes belonging to your user. "rm -rf /tmp/gconfd-
$USER /tmp/orbit-$USER". Log in again. Hope ;-).

Nils
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