nautilus can't start

[Ben Steeves]

On 6/9/05, kas <kas11 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Blank desktop too ... no background nor icons? If so, you might try
> bonobo-slay, perhaps repeatedly, from a terminal while running gnome.  I

Bonobo-slay kills off the stalled nautilus (along with everything
else), but doesn't fix the problem.  Nautilus still hangs the next
time I start it.

>  Cleaning out everything in /tmp that the user owned
> didn't help much here, nor did trimming things out of my session seem to
> do much, but some combination of those things finally made the problem
> go away ... 

Nope, I've tried the /tmp thing too, no joy.

although it may have been the phase of the moon or the fact
> the I occasionally shake a Phillips screwdriver at the offending box
> whilst speaking sharp words and making thinly veiled threats.  

Hm, now that I haven't tried.  I'll let you know how it goes :-)

> Dev help
> has some info on bonobo-activation- servers that may help too.  Can't
> say that google was my friend this time.

Hm, OK, that's something...

[bcs at ripley ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server
libbonobo-2.8.0-2
[bcs at ripley ~]$ ldd /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server 
        libbonobo-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0 (0x073c5000)
        libbonobo-activation.so.4 =>
/usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4 (0x0741f000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x001aa000)
        libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0
(0x006d2000)
        libORBit-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 (0x07371000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00df9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00b06000)
        libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00987000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0010b000)
        libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x00878000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00bf8000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00b0c000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00ae1000)
        libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x005f9000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x009b5000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0099b000)

Looks kosher to me...
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