Re: [Nautilus-list] Help - Blank GNOME desktop or root warning messages after installing Nautilus

[Simos Xenitellis <simos pc96 ma rhbnc ac uk>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Dylan Beattie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just installed Nautilus release 1.0 on RedHat 7... finally resolved all the
> package dependencies, got a clean install, typed 'nautilus', got a warning
> message about running it as root, and then it loaded fine. Very impressive,
> I must say... until I reconfigured X to run at a higher res. Now if I log on
> as root and run nautilus, all I get is the same warning message 'You are
> running Nautilus as root...' again and again - click 'OK', bit of disk
> thrashing, then the same message again.
>
> Worse, if I log on as a normal user, I get a completely blank Gnome
> desktop - no icons, no panel, no pop-up menu - nothing - and after about ten
> seconds it dumps me back at the Gnome login screen - whether this is an
> actual log-out or the X server dying, I can't establish. Anyone encountered
> this problem or know a fix?

Ok, you typically get the "You are root blah blah, it's bad for your
karma.." when you are logged on as root. The reason is obvious.
The important idea here is that if Nautilus for some reason dies,
it restarts. If you are root, you will get the "You are root..." screen.
If Nautilus dies all the time, you will get the "You are root..." screen
all the time!

(In fact this feature to warn if you are root is quite good for my testing
purposes with i18n and I run it only as root, as I have to exit+rerun
several times :).

If you are a normal user, Nautilus will dies and respawn very quickly
without any indication, having the effects you described.