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.
The only thing in here I can reproduce is that Nautilus hangs due to some esound hosage; this was a bug in libesd. It should be fixed in current rawhide esd packages. If you still have problems with rawhide gnome-vfs, esd, Nautilus, etc., please be more specific about exactly what happens and file a separate report for each issue. ;-)
I have no idea with what specific underlying packages I may have problems. I can only see that I brought this turkey into the picture and things are going downhill pretty fast. To expect from me to understand deep interdependencies in the whole system is a bit too much.