For a non-root user, clicking on any nautilus icon locks up nautilus. After starting nautilus, I can click on the desktop background and open new filesystem browser windows without a problem. Clicking on an icon for any file in any browser window, or clicking on any nautilus icon on the window desktop, locks up nautilus for about two minutes, before nautilus highlights the icon. This does not happen for root.
If you run "esd" in a terminal does it work again?
This machine does not have a sound card.
That doesn't matter; just humor me and see if running esd helps ;-) If it doesn't, can you "strace -p -o foo" the nautilus process during the lockup, gzip foo, and send foo.gz to hp? Thanks!
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
esd will not run because it will fail to /dev/dsp, since there is no sound card. Run esd when logged in as non-root nautilus locks up Log out. Log in as root. rm -rf root-owned /tmp/esd Log out. Log in as non-root. nautilus locks up Log out, use a root window to kill all the stuck non-root processes that weren't killed. Log in as non-root. Run esd, creating non-root owned /tmp/.esd nautilus works. strace when nautilus locks up follows.
The strace and your comments indicate this was an esd problem we fixed, so I think this should be gone. Please reopen if you can still reproduce with rawhide nautilus and esound. Thanks for the thorough report.