Nautilus doesn't start

[klaus dahlke gmx de]

Hi all
 on a tarball compiled gnome-1.4 Nautilius won't start. Running run-nautilius for the first time brinps up a few screens and after pressing FINISH on the last screen, nothing further happens. Running then run-nautlius or nautilius doens't do anything, not even sconsuming CPU. With ctrl-c the process can be aborted. 

A nautilus -c produces twice the output:
running nautilus_self_check_string
running nautilus_self_check_string_list
running nautilus_self_check_enumeration
running nautilus_self_check_preferences
running nautilus_self_check_scalable_font
running nautilus_self_check_font_manager
running nautilus_self_check_string_map
running nautilus_self_check_art_extensions
running nautilus_self_check_gdk_pixbuf_extensions
running nautilus_self_check_glib_extensions
running nautilus_self_check_gdk_extensions
running nautilus_self_check_gdk_font_extensions
running nautilus_self_check_search_uri
running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities
running nautilus_self_check_file_operations
running nautilus_self_check_background
running nautilus_self_check_directory
running nautilus_self_check_file
running nautilus_self_check_icon_container
running nautilus_self_check_icon_factory
running nautilus_self_check_smooth_text_layout_cache
[0] [100] [200] [300] [400] [500] [600] [700] [800] [900] [1000] [1100] [1200] [1300] [1400] [1500] [1600] [1700] [1800] [1900] [2000] [2100] [2200] [2300] [2400] [2500] [2600] [2700] [2800] [2900] 


Thanks for any hint.

Cheers,
Klaus