Nautilus in a loop...

[The Hoelschers]

Well, I don't know for sure what happened, but I did an 'rpm -U' on the 
nautilus and nautilus-mozilla packages, and all of a sudden it started 
behaving....

Weird, but I guess I deserve it for using Ximian....

Chris.

The Hoelschers wrote:

> I've got an iteresting problem, not sure when it developed, but can't
> seem to get it fixed.
> 
> When I launch X using Gnome as my desktop environment, it comes up, then
> switches from the Gnome desktop (tool bar at top) to a more 'standard'
> desktop (with icons down the left border, but no tool bar).  Then it
> just keeps going back and forth.
> 
> It used to be that every time it switched to the 'standard' desktop,
> Nautilus would add a new link to hda1, my Windows partition.  At one
> point, I let it go long enough to have 'Windows (1)' through 'Windows
> (23)' before I CTL-ALT-Backspaced out.
> 
> I'm on a Mandrake 7.2 load with the Ximian Gnome on top.  I went through
> last night and updated to all the latest Ximian junk, and that got rid
> of the repeated addition of links to hda1, but Gnome still just keeps
> switching between the two desktop views.
> 
> What I notice is that Nautilus keeps starting, using a lot of CPU for a
> few seconds, then ends.  This 'rythm' is in-sync with the flash to the
> 'standard' desktop.  I.e.; Nautilus starts, desktop switches, Nautilus
> ends, switch back to normal Gnome desktop, etc., etc., ad-nasuem.....
> 
> Any ideas what script in Nautilus to fix?
> 
> Thanks -
> Chris H.
> 
> 

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