Comment 43 for bug 508890

This bug affects me too on a Sony Vayo VGN-Z:

G98 [GeForce 9300M GS]

Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick)
Gnome Release: 2.31.6 2010-08-05 (Ubuntu)
nvidia-current (from ppa) 256.44-0ubuntu1

After login nautilus tries to start but always crashes.

I have to
  $> killall nautilus
by hand

If that does not work, I run it this way:
  $> while true; do killall nautilus; done
for some seconds. That works.

The 'bug-buddy' was not able to trace the crash back.

/var/log/messages reports:
Aug 15 14:13:47 vgn-z21mn nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 2.30.2 initializing...
Aug 15 14:13:47 vgn-z21mn nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 2.30.2 initializing...
Aug 15 14:13:49 vgn-z21mn kernel: [ 2602.597093] ptrace of non-child pid 8020 was attempted by: gdb (pid 8169)

(here the 'kernel' (third) line reports the failing of bug-buddy)

Then I startet a 'sudo nautilus /' it crashed as well and I became the attached bugreport.

I hope this helps tracing back the problem. I am not sure if this crash of 'sudo nautilus /' has the same reason as the crash of the
'Nautilus Desktop' after login..

hth