I have seen this issue on a netbook too. it was solved after an upgrade and a reboot there. can you please try to create a new user and login to it..
my workaround $ killall nautilus do it several times and the list will start reducing. seems like gnome-settings-daemon died in your case. -- Nautilus hangs for a long time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656406 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
