Bug#570955: nautilus: sometimes tries to starts hundreds of File Managers on login

[Julian Gilbey]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.28.4-1
Severity: important

I am having a random problem with nautilus, when running with compiz
as my window manager, both on i386 and amd64 platforms with an
up-to-date testing distribution.  Sometimes when I log on, nautilus
tries to start File Managers, and keeps on going trying to start them
until I send a TERM signal to the nautilus process; it uses close to
100% of CPU to do this.  Sometimes this helps, other times, I have to
send a KILL signal to stop it.  I have no idea what is causing this or
what I can do to stop it happening in the future.

   Julian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.15-2          Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                     1.4.3-1         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.28.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1               0.3.9-1         library for accessing beagle using
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                1.8.8-2         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.84-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3               2.1.1-1         library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                0.6.19-1        library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18                2.18.6-1        GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.28.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.22.4-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglib2.0-data          2.22.4-1        Common files for GLib library
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11    2.28.2-1        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.18.6-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.6-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1   2.28.4-1        libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.26.2-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1              2.0.89-4        SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                   2:1.1.1-1       X11 Session Management library
ii  libtrackerclient0        0.6.95-3        metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0          1.1.6-1         Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.3.3-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                  2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1              1:0.9.5-1       X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data            2.28.4-1        data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.70-1          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-dat 2010.01.31               Application Installer Data Files
pn  brasero         <none>                   (no description available)
ii  consolekit      0.4.1-3                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base    5.0.5                    common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gvfs-backends   1.4.3-1                  userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  synaptic        0.63                     Graphical package manager

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer]    9.3-0.0         Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  eog                      2.28.2-1        Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]      2.28.2-1        Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]          1:3.6.8-1       PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  mpg123 [mp3-decoder]     1.10.0-2        MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
ii  opencubicplayer [mp3-dec 1:0.1.17-2      UNIX port of Open Cubic Player
ii  totem                    2.28.5-1        A simple media player for the GNOM
pn  tracker                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]        1.0.4-2+b1      multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]    1.0.4-2+b1      multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii  xdg-user-dirs            0.10-1          tool to manage well known user dir
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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