Strange Nautilus behavior after updates and rebooting machine with VNC connection

[KC8LDO]

Michael;

Great, so its not just me and I'm not going nuts.

Thanks;

Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
To: "KC8LDO" <kc8ldo at arrl.net>; <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: Strange Nautilus behavior after updates and rebooting machine 
with VNC connection


> On 15 Nov 2009 at 0:21, KC8LDO wrote:
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>> Anybody notice strange Nautilus behavior after updates and rebooting 
>> machine
>> with a persistent VNC connection setup?  I don't leave the machine on all
>> the time thus the rebooting. I've been getting rather annoyed with the 
>> way
>> Nautilus is failing to display my home folder's contents after doing a
>> routine update and rebooting the machine. Clicking on the home folder 
>> icon
>> will open the Nautilus application and display an empty window, on the 
>> right
>> hand side, where the contents of my home folder should be. The icon in 
>> the
>> upper right corner of the window has the spinning effect, like its doing
>> something, but nothing ever seems to show up. Nautilus will display the
>> folder contents of other folders just fine, just not my home folder after 
>> an
>> update reboot sequence. I did find that rebooting a second time always 
>> seems
>> to fix the problem, why I don't know.
>>
>> I also have two applications that crash on me every time as well, 
>> nm-applet
>> and gnome-setting daemon, both while using a VNC session over my home LAN
>> when first booted up and connecting using VNC. The above two applications
>> don't seem to crash when logging in with a directly attached console
>> however. The application crashing I posted the crash report to the gnome
>> mailing list.
>>
>
> I've seen the same thing from time to time. I actually disabled the two 
> applets
> that caused the problem. The problem with nautilus happens from time to
> time, and it evenually does load, but then all desktop icons are gone. 
> I've
> generally found that another restart will bring it back, but it is 
> annoying.
>
>
>> 73's
>>
>> Leland C. Scott
>> KC8LDO
>>
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