fleshyorgans

This morning my Ubuntu developed an odd issue. Not sure if it was file corruption or what. Nautilus developed an issue where it would open an initial folder, such as my home folder, then hang forever (with no error messages and no logging) trying to move to any other folder.

Reboots, reinstallation of nautilus, removal of recently installed Bind updates didn’t do anything to solve it.

Turns out I had to open a console, type ‘nautilus -q’ then reboot. That solved things.

I think what happened was that some config file got screwed up in the middle of something, and each time nautilus restarted it tried to reload from that point. The only way to purge it was to manually restart the program.

My guess is that nautilus never really quits, per se… it just kind of saves its state and continues on the next boot.

Dunno. Really irritating, whatever the cause.