Nautilus totally unresponsive

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Feb 8 20:33:05 UTC 2010


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
> 
> 
> Please help.
> 
> 
> --DRL
> 

Quite the perplexing problem...

Just a quick idea, try renaming ~/Desktop, and see if that helps.

After than, I would just start appending a .bak to the folder name of 
every . folder, one at a time, until I found the culprit.






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