Nautilus totally unresponsive

[NoOp]

On 02/07/2010 11:30 PM, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
> Been struggling to fix this problem all week. Tried pretty much every 
> "solution" I can find online.
> 
> Nautilus is basically frozen. I can set-up a new user and it works no 
> problem. If I run it as root using gksudo, I can open folders, but the 
> desktop is stuck fast.
> 
> I've tried deleting .nautilus
> 
> I've tried deleting .config and .gconf
> 
> Also, gfs-metadata.
> 
> I've renamed the following directories ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 ~/.gconf 
> ~/.gconfd and rebooted but no go.
> 
> There's some conflict going on. If I sudo killall nautilus and restart 
> with nautilus I get this warning:
> 
> Code:
> 
> nautilus
> 
> ** (nautilus:3194): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'UploadFinished'
> 
> ** (nautilus:3194): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'DownloadFinished'
> 
> ** (nautilus:3194): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal 'ShareCreateError'
> Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
> Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

On a working karmic 9.10 gnome system:
====
$ nautilus

(nautilus:5409): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

$ gksu nautilus
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-bitdefender extension
** Message: Initializing gksu extension...

** (nautilus:5359): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal
'UploadFinished'

** (nautilus:5359): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal
'DownloadFinished'

** (nautilus:5359): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal
'ShareCreateError'

(nautilus:5359): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid class cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GObject'
====

You might try:

$ sudo apt-get install -f && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
&& sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

(all one line - or you can do each individually)