Maybe this will help. I tried it here, and

(1) Evolution did not die;
(2) Nautilus is running on what seems to be a loop, eating up 98% of CPU.

So I ran gdb against the Nautilus pid, and I got this backtrace:

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x00002b39d63ae643 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b39d6397e1e in fputs () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x00000000004a9db1 in write_string (filename=0x1362d20 "/home/hggdh/nautilus-debug-log.txt", file=0x1363800, 
    str=0x12ef3e0 "0x75fe50 2007/04/17 09:07:07.8602 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11", 
    error=0x3035656635377830) at nautilus-debug-log.c:446
#3  0x00000000004a9ea7 in nautilus_debug_log_dump (filename=0x1362d20 "/home/hggdh/nautilus-debug-log.txt", 
    error=0x0) at nautilus-debug-log.c:508
#4  0x0000000000452d54 in dump_debug_log () at nautilus-main.c:209
#5  0x0000000000452d80 in sigfatal_handler (sig=11) at nautilus-main.c:254
#6  <signal handler called>
#7  compare_by_display_name (file_1=0x120c4a0, file_2=0x120c660) at nautilus-file.c:1829
#8  0x00000000004c8dbe in nautilus_file_compare_for_sort (file_1=0x120c4a0, file_2=0x120c660, 
    sort_type=NAUTILUS_FILE_SORT_BY_DISPLAY_NAME, directories_first=<value optimized out>, reversed=0)
    at nautilus-file.c:2182
#9  0x00002b39d54e93d3 in g_list_sort_real (list=<value optimized out>, 
    compare_func=0x479640 <compare_files_cover>, user_data=0xe19a40) at glist.c:583
#10 0x00002b39d54e939d in g_list_sort_real (list=0x1219200, compare_func=0x479640 <compare_files_cover>, 
    user_data=0xe19a40) at glist.c:629
#11 0x00002b39d54e939d in g_list_sort_real (list=0x12190e0, compare_func=0x479640 <compare_files_cover>, 
    user_data=0xe19a40) at glist.c:629
#12 0x00002b39d54e939d in g_list_sort_real (list=0x1219f60, compare_func=0x479640 <compare_files_cover>, 
    user_data=0xe19a40) at glist.c:629
#13 0x0000000000475996 in sort_files (view=0x31, list=0xe2d8c8) at fm-directory-view.c:2689
#14 0x000000000047990e in process_new_files (view=0xe19a40) at fm-directory-view.c:2767
#15 0x00000000004799ff in done_loading_callback (directory=<value optimized out>, 
    callback_data=<value optimized out>) at fm-directory-view.c:3175
#16 0x00002b39d52857da in IA__g_closure_invoke (closure=0x11f0930, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=1, 
    param_values=0x7fffd98c5900, invocation_hint=0x7fffd98c57d0) at gclosure.c:490
#17 0x00002b39d5295408 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=0xb25bc0, detail=0, instance=0xb373b0, emission_return=0x0, 
    instance_and_params=0x7fffd98c5900) at gsignal.c:2440
#18 0x00002b39d5296843 in IA__g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0xb373b0, signal_id=<value optimized out>, detail=0, 
    var_args=0x7fffd98c5b80) at gsignal.c:2199
#19 0x00002b39d5296a13 in IA__g_signal_emit (instance=0x2b39d6684960, signal_id=18979328, detail=49)
    at gsignal.c:2243
#20 0x00000000004b14e8 in dequeue_pending_idle_callback (callback_data=0x0) at nautilus-directory-async.c:914
#21 0x00000000004b166a in directory_load_callback (handle=0x19, result=GNOME_VFS_ERROR_EOF, list=0xe58ee0, 
    entries_read=<value optimized out>, callback_data=0x0) at nautilus-directory-async.c:1041
#22 0x00002b39d475354e in dispatch_job_callback (data=<value optimized out>) at gnome-vfs-job.c:237
#23 0x00002b39d54eba14 in IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x792ae0) at gmain.c:2045
#24 0x00002b39d54ee85d in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x792ae0, block=1, dispatch=1, 
    self=<value optimized out>) at gmain.c:2677
#25 0x00002b39d54eeb6a in IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x7c5180) at gmain.c:2881
#26 0x00002b39d32b3023 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#27 0x00000000004537a3 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0x7fffd98c63c8) at nautilus-main.c:548
(gdb)