This bug affects me too on a Sony Vayo VGN-Z: G98 [GeForce 9300M GS]
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) Gnome Release: 2.31.6 2010-08-05 (Ubuntu) nvidia-current (from ppa) 256.44-0ubuntu1 After login nautilus tries to start but always crashes. I have to $> killall nautilus by hand If that does not work, I run it this way: $> while true; do killall nautilus; done for some seconds. That works. The 'bug-buddy' was not able to trace the crash back. /var/log/messages reports: Aug 15 14:13:47 vgn-z21mn nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 2.30.2 initializing... Aug 15 14:13:47 vgn-z21mn nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 2.30.2 initializing... Aug 15 14:13:49 vgn-z21mn kernel: [ 2602.597093] ptrace of non-child pid 8020 was attempted by: gdb (pid 8169) (here the 'kernel' (third) line reports the failing of bug-buddy) Then I startet a 'sudo nautilus /' it crashed as well and I became the attached bugreport. I hope this helps tracing back the problem. I am not sure if this crash of 'sudo nautilus /' has the same reason as the crash of the 'Nautilus Desktop' after login.. hth ** Attachment added: "bug-buddy_crash-report" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/nautilus/+bug/508890/+attachment/1491718/+files/bug-buddy_crash-report -- Nautilus crashes when there are multiple XScreens https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs