Nautilus Segfaults

[paranoid_humanoid]

It did not find any more files or directories. Just the ones I deleted in the last attempt

[RedSingularity]

On thing i would try is removing it like this................

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nautilus

then search for all the files again and delete those as well. That way you know you have deleted any know config file.

[ubername]

On thing i would try is removing it like this................

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nautilus

then search for all the files again and delete those as well. That way you know you have deleted any know config file.

Whoops. Tried this. It has removed GNOME (part of dkms* which the above command removed?), and I can't reinstall as it 'Depends: swfdec-mozilla but it is not going to be installed'

(I am on Lucid, so I don't know if this would affect stable releases!)

Fortiunately I have XFCE which is working well.

(By the way, purging nautilus, removing all instances of find ~/nautilus* then reinstalling nautilus didn't resolve the issue - still get
(nautilus:3806): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed)

Update: fixed 'missing gnome' problem; I had to reinstall 'gnome-desktop-environment', not 'gnome'

[paranoid_humanoid]

You have that problem as well?

Actually I don't think the "Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()" failed message is about this error, because launching nautilus as root produces this message as well but nautilus starts up correctly.

[Sin@Sin-Sacrifice]

Delete the .themes folder?

[paranoid_humanoid]

Delete the .themes folder?

Nope. Did not work!

[john newbuntu]

A few things I would try in a seg fault situation are:
1. memory diagnostics - good to make sure we do not have hardware issues
2. reinstall gdm/ubuntu desktop (perhaps a dependent lib is missing or the version is different)
3. Run nautilus with strace (might point out if a file read/write went bad)

[paranoid_humanoid]

Fixed it
Running strace on nautilus I found out it's checking for files in ~/.local/share so I backed it up and let Nautilus start with a fresh empty one and it started fine. The first thing it did is it created the directory gvfs-metadata, so it must've been a corrupted file over there because I deleted it from the back up and restored it and now it's working again

Thanks a lot to everyone who helped me with this, I really appreciate it

[ubername]

I renamed ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata to ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata.old, logout then login, Desktop is back - thanks to all.

[Hawy.php]

I renamed ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata to ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata.old, logout then login, Desktop is back - thanks to all.

Thanks so much
i faced same problem and i tried alot of things
renaming my .gnome and deleting my .nautilus folders
and not works

just renaming metadata that works perfect for me