Bug 49648

Description of Problem:

On the first try on a non-root acount Nautilus went first for a long
grind, totally screwed irreversibly my background without asking any
questions, opened some windowns and left some catathonic windows
with sliders which do not slide and other leftovers with any function
but to mess things around and non-updating icons.  What is worse it turned
out
that these windows cannot be removed, or killed with 'xkill'.  Restarting
a Gnome session was also of no use even after kicking out all Nautilus
processes with a help of process list in "Control Center".

Running nautilus-clean.sh also resulted only in a message
"nautilus-clean: No stale processes found." or trying 'killall nautilus'
also failed to get rid of all this detritus.

After a while empty window (only a gray background) with a title "Cancel
open?" poped out in the centre of my screen and could not be closed by any
normal means.  Only 'xkill' eventually removed it.

Rerunnning after deleting ~/.gconf and ~/.gconfd did not change very
much (well ~/.gconfd/saved_state was no longer empty but 6012 bytes
long).

Aftef cleaning up all nautilus junk from ~/.gnome/session manually,
restarting and trying to restart nautilus manually I got in a terminal
window an unending stream of messages like this:

esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
Try -trust to force esd to start.
esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
/tmp/.esd/socket
The socket is not accessible by esd.
Exiting...

Checking with 'find /tmp/.esd -ls' revealed this:

112520    1 drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         1024 Jul 21 16:52
/tmp/.esd
112521    0 srwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            0 Jul 21 16:52
/tmp/.esd/socket

Why these attempt to create something which already exists, and seems
to be - wonders of wonders - even accesible, your guess is as good
as mine.

What a great stuff!!  I am all thrilled.