Bug#256993: nautilus does not start

[Jose M. Moya]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.6.3-3
Severity: important


Nautilus keeps running but no window shows up, it doesn't change the
background, and no menu is attached to the root window.  It consumes
more than 90% CPU.

It happens also selecting GNOME safe session in gdm.

It happens also with new users with no config at all.

I have tried to downgrade to the testing packages, but it doesn't help.

An strace attached to the nautilus process shows:

28484 poll( <unfinished ...>
28558 futex(0x822def0, FUTEX_WAIT, 5, NULL <unfinished ...>
28559 futex(0x822e1d0, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL <unfinished ...>
28560 futex(0x822e4c0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
28561 futex(0x826ea98, FUTEX_WAIT, 5, NULL <unfinished ...>

(normal poll loop?)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES@euro

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets                  1:2.6.1-7      configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       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              2.6.2-4        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  libexif10                 0.6.9-1        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               2.6.1-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-7        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            2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1                  1.9.1-6        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.3-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus2-2            2.6.3-3        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                2.6.4-7        SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.6-2          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.10-3       GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data             2.6.3-3        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info          0.14-1.1       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-3    compression library - runtime

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