Bug#304041: nautilus: using an 'Browse filesystem' windows, Nautilus becomes unstable and crash repeatedly

[Franck Richter]

Hi,
Thank you for your email.

<1> Nautilus tests
I am not sure how to pass arguments to nautilus. Already after starting X a nautilus process exist:
   ps aux | grep -i nautilus
   f         5885  3.4  1.2  31292 12624 ?        Ssl  23:10   0:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
I hope simply typing nautilus something from a gnometerminal pass the argument to the running nautilus process, as it does not start a second process (pid remains same).

After a fresh startx, from a gnometerminal:
   mkdir empty
   nautilus empty
   => resizing nautilus window does not crash.
   
   (closing nautilus window)
   nautilus empty
   => resizing nautilus window does not crash.

   nautilus --sync
   (it opens nautilus on my home)
   a few window resizing and nautilus crash.
   (after the crash, nautilus respawn once one select 'close' or 'restart', but with a different pid)
   
   ps aux | grep -i nautilus
   f         6005 88.0  8.8 111804 91244 ?        Ssl  23:12   0:05 nautilus --sm-client-id 110a000001000111325383100000057850003 --screen 0

<2> my video card
I have a radeon 9700 in AGP.
in XF86Config-4 I have:
   Section "Device"
	   Identifier	"myRadeon"
   	Driver		"radeon"
   EndSection

lspci | grep -i radeon
   0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE [Radeon 9500 Pro]
   0000:03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 [Radeon 9500 Pro] (Secondary)

<3> notes
I use sid since 1 year or so. I never saw such problem (no hardware change recently). I am sure this problem didn't exist around March 10.
Since ~1 week I am back from holidays and saw several time this problem (unfortunately I did several apt-get since).
Resizing gnometerminal or firefox windows never lead to crash.

Well I hope above may help you (and me). Do not hesitate to ask any other point you would need.

Regards,
Franck