Bug#602310: does not start as root (# nautilus )

Wed Nov 3 16:51:14 UTC 2010

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.28.4-1
Severity: important

here is what happens when i want to run nautilus on my dell inspiron 1564 with debian squeeze :

root at debian:/home/mansour# nautilus

(nautilus:2788): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

(nautilus:2788): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

(nautilus:2788): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/apps/nautilus/preferences': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/desktop/gnome/file_views': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/desktop/gnome/background': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/desktop/gnome/lockdown': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/apps/nautilus/desktop': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/apps/nautilus/icon_view': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)GConf warning: failure listing pairs in `/apps/nautilus/desktop-metadata': Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
(nautilus:2788): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

(nautilus:2788): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

(nautilus:2788): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to open a connection to the session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(nautilus:2788): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the running instance, aborting.

(nautilus:2788): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to open a connection to the session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(nautilus:2788): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the running instance, aborting.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.15-2          Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                     1.4.3-1         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.30.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1               0.3.9-1         library for accessing beagle using
ii  libc6                    2.11.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                1.8.8-2         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.84-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3               2.1.1-1         library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                0.6.19-1        library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18                2.18.6-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.28.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.24.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglib2.0-data          2.22.4-1        Common files for GLib library
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11    2.28.2-1        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.18.6-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.6-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1   2.28.4-1        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.26.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1              2.0.89-4        SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                   2:1.1.1-1       X11 Session Management library
ii  libtrackerclient0        0.6.95-3        metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0          1.1.6-1         Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.3.3-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                  2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1              1:0.9.5-1       X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data            2.28.4-1        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.70-1          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
pn  app-install-dat <none>                   (no description available)
ii  brasero         2.28.3-2                 CD/DVD burning application for GNO
ii  consolekit      0.4.1-3                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base    5.0.5                    common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gvfs-backends   1.4.3-1                  userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  synaptic        0.63                     Graphical package manager

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                           2.28.2-1   Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]           2.28.2-1   Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  totem                         2.28.5-1   A simple media player for the GNOM
pn  tracker                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  xdg-user-dirs                 <none>     (no description available)

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