Well, I was able to fix this by opening gnome-tweak tool and setting the "have file manager handle the desktop" to false. I have not investigated this though.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1157494 Title: Nautilus will not open due 'draw-background' setting does not exist. Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After updating today Nautilus will not open. If I open Gnome tweak tool and "uncheck" have file manager handle the desktop nautilus will open but theme and icons are not themed. Re-enable have file manager handle desktop, theme and icons are fine, but nautilus will not open again. uname -a - Linux Raring 3.8.0-13-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 18 18:11:51 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux lsb_release -rd - Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) Release: 13.04 shell --version GNOME Shell 3.7.92 running command nautilus in terminal gives this error... Initializing nautilus-dropbox 1.6.0 (nautilus:2478): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: g_module_open libpython failed: /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpyglib-gi-2.0-python2.7.so.0: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct') Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 64, in apport_excepthook from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in <module> from apport.report import Report File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 12, in <module> import subprocess, tempfile, os.path, re, pwd, grp, os File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 32, in <module> import io as _io File "/usr/lib/python2.7/io.py", line 51, in <module> import _io ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_io.i386-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct Original exception was: ImportError: could not import gobject (error was: '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpyglib-gi-2.0-python2.7.so.0: undefined symbol: _Py_ZeroStruct') (nautilus:2478): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: pygobject initialization failed (nautilus:2478): Nautilus-Python-WARNING **: nautilus_python_init_python failed (nautilus:2478): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.background' does not contain a key named 'draw-background' Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1157494/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

