When /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is set to false, the window list gets full of messages which say "Nautilus starting...". System is also getting slower because of this. Happens only with newer (>=2.26, maybe the 2.25 versions are affected, too) nautilus versions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open gconf-editor /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop 2. uncheck show_desktop 3. See nautilus starting over and over again Actual Results: nautilus is starting over and over again Expected Results: Nautilus should quit. There's a proposed patch which works for me: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14110
The arch linux patch seems odd, it would mean disable auto-reloading of nautilus completely which would be bad for desktop experience.
Patch from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580793 added to tree, closing. Thanks for reporting.
*** Bug 270029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reinstalled nautilus Problem still exists
Seems to be fixed in 2.26.3
(In reply to comment #6) > Seems to be fixed in 2.26.3 Oops, bad test. Persists with 2.26.3. Is there a .desktop file somewhere that needs to be cleaned up manually?
I haven't set show_desktop to false but I also have this problem. After some googling, apparently some people experience this bug if they unchecked show_desktop, some without or without show_desktop unchecked, and some don't exeprience it at all... seems a bit random. The debian guys think it is more related to gnome-session, and they seem to have fixed it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525718
Upgrading to upstream nautilus-2.27.2 and gnome-session-2.26.2 did not help.
The problem is when you don't have nautilus managing your desktop (I'm using netbook-launcher), nautilus exits when it's last window is closed. Gnome-session then tries to respawn it but it exits because of /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is false. The solution is to remove 'filemanager' from /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list, or, as in my case, replace 'nautilus' with 'netbook-launcher' in /desktop/gnome/session/required-components/filemanager. If you actually use nautilus as your desktop-managing you may also need to add it to autostart in your session.
Created attachment 198777 [details, diff] nautilus-2.26.3-restart.patch Can anybody test attached patch applied to nautilus? It's based on fedora's fix that is being applied in their spec and I like it more than debian's fix because it's simpler, but I cannot test how it works because I must still stay with gnome stable Good luck!
On the other hand, seems that a different fix is being applied in gentoo since 2.26.2-r1, has anybody tried if it fixes the problem also? :-/
no fix that I tried yet works. The only sensible fix I have heard of needs changes to session and isn't complete yet. It is on the upstream bug report.
(In reply to comment #13) > no fix that I tried yet works. The only sensible fix I have heard of needs > changes to session and isn't complete yet. It is on the upstream bug report. > Can't be fixed for 2.26 (not even in 2.28). Remove from tracker?
(In reply to comment #14) > Can't be fixed for 2.26 (not even in 2.28). Remove from tracker? > +1 from me but, from my point of view, a reference to this bug should be added to: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/faq.xml#doc_chap1_sect2 Thanks :-)
One solution that I have used --- and it does seem to work --- is gconf-editor -> desktop -> gnome -> session remove "filemanager" from "required_components_list". This way, you can set show_desktop to false, without any problems. Does this work for anyone else?
Yes as mentioned before this works for me, too.
For what it's worth, I mentioned this solution back in June: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-770786-highlight-.html
*** Bug 312853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just reproduced this bug, after upgrading my Gentoo installation to GNOME 2.26. Unfortunately, the workaround described in comment 16 did NOT work for me. The nautilus program still gets caught in an endless restart loop, and many "Starting..." panels appear on the taskbar, until they compress so tightly they are no longer visible. The only way is to check the show_desktop box again, quickly, before gnome-panel overloads itself with panels.
2.30.1-r1 solves this