[Nautilus-list] GMC broke Nautilus!

[David Fuchs <dfuchs uniserve com>]

Hello everyone,

   I'm new on this list, and I'm writing because I seem to have broken 
my copy of Nautilus.

   What happened was I started a copy of gmc.  This caused my desktop 
to display duplicate icons and such, so I quit gmc, but it kept 
re-spawning.  I ended up disabling the respawn in the gnome control 
center.  I happily re-started Nautilus (it wasn't working) and after 
starting it, I noticed the following problem.

   Once Nautilus starts, it displays all the desktop icons properly, 
and mouse-overs will still highlight the icons and such.  If I open one 
of the icons (single-click in this case), then it opens the appropriate 
window.  Now, I can open as many windows as I want, but as soon as I 
close just one of the opened windows, Nautilus dies.  It's still running 
if I check the process list, but the icons are no longer drawn (moving a 
window over top will erase the icon below), and I have to kill Nautilus 
and have it respawn in order to get the icons back.  Of course the 
problem occurs the next time I happen to close a Nautilus window.

   I installed Nautilus as part of the Ximian GNOME packages.  I've 
since purged Nautilus and installed it again, to no avail. I've created 
new users on the system (which means new config files for that user) and 
even then, Nautilus is still broken for that new user.  I've also 
reinstalled 'gconfd' and 'oafd' as they somehow appeared to be related 
to the workings of Nautilus (ie: they had the same weird sm-client-ID 
tag in the process listing).

   So, how did gmc break Nautilus?  Is there any way to repair this 
problem?  I hope someone can give me some advice...

Thanks!
-David Fuchs