[ale] Problem with Nautilus

[Keith Hopkins]

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> I'm having a very strange problem with Nautilus.  I initially thought it was
> a problem with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2, but when I installed 8.1 the same thing
> happened.  It's all the more strange because Nautilus works perfectly on my
> laptop, installed from the same CDs.  Previously I have always used KDE on
> my desktop.  I have done three complete installations on this machine
> (formatting all partions each time) and exactly the same thing happens every
> time:
> 
> The first time I start Nautilus, the window partially displays and then
> stops updating.  I right-click its entry in the task bar and kill it.  The
> icons on the desktop disappear.  From then on, when I try to start Nautilus
> I get a few new processes but no window at all.  If I log on as a different
> user, I don't even get that first broken Nautilus window.  There are no
> desktop icons and Nautilus doesn't work right from the start.
> 
> I don't know if this is a Mandrake problem or a GNOME problem.  I don't have
> any other distros handy.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Krum


   I'm running SuSE 7.3 and on there, Nautilus 1.0.4 is rather flakey.  It tends to hang a lot, and sometimes breaks the desktop, requiring a ctrl-alt-bs.  Did I mention it is really SLOW.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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