Nautilus segfaults on start when run as root

[Berkeley Churchill]

Binary package hint: nautilus

From gnome-terminal, running nautilus works fine, but when I tried to open a nautilus window as root user I got:

berkeley@be-just:~$ sudo nautilus
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Sense key: 0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

berkeley@be-just:~$ sudo su
root@be-just:/home/berkeley# nautilus
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Sense key: 0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Other Information:

berkeley@be-just:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

berkeley@be-just:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

berkeley@be-just:~$ groups
berkeley adm dialout cdrom audio plugdev lpadmin ssh netdev admin sambashare usb

the end of /var/log/syslog:

Sep 4 23:53:43 be-just gnome-session[7752]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'nm-applet.desktop': Unable to start application: Failed to execute child process "nm-applet" (No such file or directory)
Sep 4 23:53:51 be-just kernel: [ 2729.631160] nautilus[8017] general protection ip:7f3b86582e78 sp:7fff81c6e720 error:0 in libc-2.10.1.so[7f3b8650d000+166000]
Sep 4 23:56:48 be-just kernel: [ 2907.164475] nautilus[8253]: segfault at 7fc846647260 ip 00007fc843a25e60 sp 00007fff8280e860 error 4 in libc-2.10.1.so[7fc8439b0000+166000]
Sep 4 23:58:32 be-just kernel: [ 3010.722678] nautilus[8324]: segfault at 66697479 ip 00007f78b35c2336 sp 00007fff657b7b10 error 4 in libc-2.10.1.so[7f78b354a000+166000]

So this might actually be a bug in libc-2.10.1, but it's hard to know if that's the case.

I'm more than willing to provide additional information, but I'm not sure what you need. This never happened before testing Karmic. The first time I tried 'sudo nautilus' I got a longer stack trace, but unfortunately I didn't record it and have been unable to reproduce it.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

Might be duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420841

[Berkeley Churchill (berkeleychurchill)]

Ah yes. I did search for duplicates but didn't see any. I'll add my incident to that thread...