Bug#265507: nautilus: unable to update desktop background

[Sam Morris]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.6.3-2
Severity: normal

After running for a couple of hours, Nautilus seems to lose the 'link'
to the desktop background gconf keys. Changing them from the Desktop
Background Preferences, or with gconftool, no longer causes the desktop
background to be updated. Killing nautilus causes a new nautilus process
to be launched, which works as expected, for a few hours, when the
problem repeats itself.

I'm not really sure where to begin debugging this problem but am happy
to provide any information to help track this down.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-5        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco2                 0.5.1-1        a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libeel2-2                 2.6.2-1        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]    0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libexif9                  0.5.12-1       The EXIF library allows you to par
ii  libgail-common            1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                 1.4.1-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.4-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-6      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                  1.10.0-2       Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus2-2            2.6.3-2        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.7.2-5        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.6-2          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-2       GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data             2.6.3-2        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info          0.14-1.1       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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