Nautilus crashing for single user, even after replacing user's entire homedir with known good homedir

[Fran Fabrizio <fran cis uab edu>]

I recently installed OpenSUSE 10.1.  The users for this machine are authenticated via LDAP and their homedirs are mounted to this machine using NFS.  

Let's say we have three users: root (the local root acct), baduser (my personal acct, from LDAP/NFS), and gooduser (a brand new LDAP/NFS account I created for this testing).

Logging in as root works fine, I get the default opensuse background image on my desktop, and the standard desktop icons (trash, etc...).  I can right-click and use the menu to open new terminals, etc...

Logging in as baduser... I get the taskbar (Applications, Places, Desktop, etc...) but I get a "Nautilus unexpectedly crashed" error (sometimes more than one), I get a black desktop background, I get no desktop icons, and no right-click menu.

To rule out LDAP/NFS as the culprit, I created a brand new LDAP/NFS account called gooduser, and I log in using that account, and everything works fine.  So I've shown that LDAP/NFS itself is not the cause.

So, I go to the NFS home directory area, and as root I do this:

# mv baduser baduser-backup
# cp -R gooduser baduser
# chown -R baduser baduser

I then logoff and login again as baduser, and still get all of the errors.  So, it wasn't something in the baduser's .nautilus or other config file or anything else in baduser's home directory.  What other things could it be?  I'm trying to think of what is specific to baduser... his UID (which is 514 and doesn't appear to conflict with anything local).  What else am I missing here?  Are there local settings caches I may need to clear that might be remembering something about baduser?  

What would be specific to a single user account but not stored in that user's home directory that would cause Nautilus to crash?

Thanks,
Fran

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653