Re: 2.10.0.1 Application "nautilus" has quit unexpectedly

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

>   Next I tried renaming the following directories:  ~/.gnome2, ~/.gconf,
> ~/.gconfd, and ~/.nautilus to allow them to be recreated.  On first try,
> this seemed to be an improvement, as nautilus actually started and seemed
> to work fine, but gnome-panel was now in a state where it kept "exiting
> unexpectedly".  I exited out of the desktop and restarted it, at which
> time both nautilus and gnome-panel went into a loop of "exiting
> unexpetedly".  That's were I'm at now.

A couple of things you might want to try:

a) removing any references to .recently-used files in your home or
GARNOME directories, this has caused issues for a few people that went
from 2.8.2 to 2.10.0.1 -- and looking at Bugzilla,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157723 looks pretty spot on.

b) removing any local fonts.conf files (especially if you've compiled
bootstrap/freetype and friends) so that your GARNOME installation
correctly finds it's fonts.

c) restarting gconfd as per the FAQ question, either quit X (and any
stale X processes, GNOME apps, etc.), and run 'gconftool-2 --shutdown'
from the prompt.

(or rebooting, which does about the same thing)

d) if you have locally defined menu shortcuts in your home directory,
defining XDG_DATA_HOME=<whereever_your_local_app_menus_are> in the
GARNOME startup script might also be of help.

Hope that helps,

Paul