Nautilus totally unresponsive

[David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk)]

NoOp wrote:
> 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)
>
>
>
>   

This didn't help, just reinstalled samba which I had removed as one of 
the possible culprits.

Thanks anyway.

DRL