Nautilus has gone gaga

[Bruce Ferrell]

Just for giggles, try creating a new user and see if that user has 
problems.  Also have a look at what's in .local.  I had some stuff in 
there once that made me nuts.

Good luck!

Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As always, the other half logs me out and then forgets to log out
> herself. I've logged her out and logged myself in.
> 
> Nautilus has gone. Totally vanished! It's listed with gnome-system-
> monitor (though nautilus-throbber is missing). Restarting gnome-
> settings-daemon does nothing. If nautilus controls the desktop backdrop,
> that part has failed as well
> 
> If I run nautilus -c from a terminal window, it gets to running
> nautilus_self_check_directory and then stops (no sort of flashing of
> disc activity). nautilus --browser doesn't start anything either.
> 
> As a "Win32" test, I have done a full reset with no change observed.
> Hosing the .nautilus directory does nothing either.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get nautilus working again?
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
>