Hi all, This afternoon my nautilus (Debian with Gnome) crashed and thereafter continually crashed even after a reboot of the PC. I could use the session manager to kill nautilus (to get it out of a spawn, crash, repawn, crash loop) and I tried to capture some useful debug but to no avail. However, any other account on the PC had no problems with nautilus. Despite it being obviously a specific user issue I ran "dpkg-reconfigure nautilus", which did not fix the problem.
I deleted the dir ~/.nautilus and some other ~/.gnome files. This did not help. In the end I resorted to strace (which is always a last gasp effort for me). strace told me that a file that it opened shortly, but not immediately, before each crash was ~/CA0X6LBS.swf. I deleted that file and everything worked! I am posting this here so that it is archived on the internet for some other poor chump who has the same problem. The file will be different but strace, and probably the file date will help you find it. I guess that my problem might have had something to do with previewing a shockwave flash (swf) file. Who knows? Michael.
