Nautilus Segfaults on new installation (was help)

[Andrew Farris]

First off, please try to use a more descriptive title for your email, so
you can attract the attention of people that have knowledge about how to
solve your issue.

now...

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:49 -0400, vitaly voytenko wrote:
> I have a desktop computer that I am trying to install Ubuntu on. I
> have installed the operating system and have established that the
> internet works, terminal and other programs. But when i go to open a
> folder, for example my home folder, it dose not reply. when i type in
> terminal 
> 
> nautilus
> 
> It comes back with
> 
> segmentation fault

Are you sure that the CD you installed from was not defective?  Try 
booting from the CD, then when the boot menu comes up pick the 'check
disk for defects' option, and let it run. If it comes back with errors,
you may want to try re-burning a disk, at a low speed, and
re-installing.

Otherwise, you could try removing/reinstalling Nautilus. from a command
line, enter this (please note, because of line wrapping, the below
command may be automatically line-broken, but the command should all go
together): 


$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus nautilus-data && sudo apt-get
install nautilus nautilus-data ubuntu-desktop


Note that im saying to install the package 'ubuntu-desktop' because it
will be automatically removed with 'nautilus', so you have to re-install
it.  If it comes up with anything else listed under 'to be removed' when
you run this command, cancel out, and add those packages to the end of
the install command. For instance, when I ran it on my computer, I came
up with this:

   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree       
   Reading state information... Done
   The following packages will be REMOVED:
     gnome-dbg* nautilus* nautilus-data* nautilus-dbg* nautilus-share*
     ubuntu-desktop*
   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   After this operation, 26.5MB disk space will be freed.
   Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

So I would have had to run (again all 1 line): 


$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nautilus nautilus-data && sudo apt-get
install nautilus nautilus-data ubuntu-desktop gnome-dbg nautilus-dbg
nautilus-share


I'm not sure if all those other files are standard on all installs, so I
didn't list them in my original commands.  I've got lots of dev/dbg
stuff installed because I've been trying to learn how to program with
GTK, plus I use the folder sharing option, so I figured that's where my
extra packages came from.

Hope that helps!

-- 
Andrew
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