Bug#507074: nautilus: No desktop for new or existing users

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:59:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> How do you start it? What is the value of the
> /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop GConf key?

For manual testing, I am running it from the command-line:

    $ nautilus --no-desktop

The key is:

    $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
    true

> Sure, but I cannot reproduce that issue.

Are you running 64-bit? If not, it could be a 64-bit issue. In
particular, it looks like it's making a malloc() call through libc6, and
doing "Bad Things" when it does:

    *** glibc detected *** strace: malloc(): memory corruption (fast):
    0x000000000110e610 ***
    ======= Backtrace: =========
    /lib/libc.so.6[0x7f1540462948]
    /lib/libc.so.6[0x7f154046567f]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x98)[0x7f1540466a78]
    strace[0x408380]
    strace[0x4058de]
    strace[0x404616]
    /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7f154040d1a6]
    strace[0x401f69]

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