Re: sporadic multiple nautilus windows at login

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:46 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Note: I'm not sure what component of gnome may be causing this issue. 
> Let me know if I need to be elsewhere.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 which uses GNOME 2.16. Sometimes when I log into 
> the GNOME desktop, a whole slew of random nautilus windows appear for no 
> apparent reason.  The number of windows can vary, and is typically 
> between three and six.  Also, this is usually accompanied by a failure 
> to display my chosen desktop background and desktop icons. If I log out 
> and then back in again, the problem goes away, only to return on a 
> future login.
> 
> The summary above is paraphrased from another user who I know is 
> experiencing this behavior as well.  Here is our discussion:
> 
> http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=56109#56109
> 
> If someone could provide assistance as to how to debug this, it would be 
> highly appreciated.

Can you try nautilus 2.16.2? It has some changes in how bonobo is used
to spawn nautilus. It might fix this issue.

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