not working correctly when not run using sudo

[Stephen Glunt]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus was working fine until I ran it as root so that I could easily move some files around without changing the permissions (I'm new to linux). However after running it as root, whenever I don't run it as root it does not display any of the contents of drives or folders nor does it switch between drives and folders and frequently the buttons betwixt the display window and the menus do not render. It still works perfectly when run as root though.

I am using ubuntu 9.04 with the latest version of nautilus.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64

[Stephen Glunt (saglunt)]

Here is a screenshot of the window that opened automatically when I put a data DVD into the drive.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Nautilus is not designed to be ran with sudo. That's not a bug, so I'm converting this in to a user question in the support tracker.

[Stephen Glunt (saglunt)]

That's fine if it is not designed to be run with sudo. The problem is that it does not run normally. It only works when run as root now. Here's a screen shot of when I opened it from the gui.

[Stephen Glunt (saglunt)]

Is there any way to fix Nautilus so that it works without root privileges? Would completely removing it and reinstalling it help?