Nautilus spawns infinitely

[Alex Ruddick]

I'm reporting this against gnome-panel because I think it's causing the bug. It does not occur in KDE4, and killing gnome-panel restarts it.

When I log in, the taskbar pager is quickly filled up with lots of new nautilus items. No nautilus window ever opens. They keep spawning so quickly that the taskbar is soon a row of tiny little spacers. New ones adding cause it to keep "shaking" (squishing stuff to the left to add new items). The notification area in my panel also vibrates back and forth, as if a 3px applet is constantly being added and removed.

Killing gnome-panel will blank the pager, but it fills up again. This process continually takes up one core of my dual core machine, but it doesn't seem to leak RAM since the system remains otherwise stable.

nautilus 1.2.25.4-0ubuntu1
gnome-panel 1.2.25.90-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, do you use the option to not display the desktop background?

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

Yes.

I took a look at ~./x-session-errors (which I've attached) and it looks like it's repeatedly detecting a hotkey.

<snip>
Sense key: 0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x30 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Shutting down dropbox extension
Shutting down nautilus-open-terminal extension
Shutting down nautilus-share extension
Initializing nautilus-share extension
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.5.0

<Repeated 100,000 times ... >

My keyboard shortcuts list a shortcut for "Home folder" which was XF86Explorer, I think. I changed it to something else but it did not stop the problem. Keyboard layout is "Generic 105-key (intl) PC, with USA layout.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you please try this from the guest user account (or another fresh user profile)?

Thanks

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

It does not occur with a new user profile.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you please run "gconftool-2 -R /apps/nautilus > nautilus.txt" from the broken account and attach "nautilus.txt" to this bug report?

Thanks

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This looks like bug 325973

[flyc0r (flyc0r)]

I experienced the same bug. Removing the nautilus part from gconf ( ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus) fixed it for me.