>From the user profile, I ran "xhost +" to allow connections to the x server (is that a correct understanding?).
As root I'm getting HAL errors: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # nautilus Initializing gnome-mount extension ** (nautilus:8513): WARNING **: Cannot connect to system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound : Failed to connect to socket / var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory ** (nautilus:8513): WARNING **: Could not initialize hal context Shutting down gnome-mount extension arrakis ~ # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=365442&page=3 talks about starting the dbus service before HAL? thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list