Nautilus Segmentation Fault With Blank CD
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I guess nautilus has had a bug that causes a segmentation fault when you try to run it as root while a blank CD/DVD is mounted for a while — at least in the Ubuntu Hardy 64 version I’m using. However, it’s been so long since I’ve needed to burn a cd/dvd that I didn’t notice this until yesterday when I had a blank cd in the drive. I was trying to run nautilus as root using a script I had written. However the new window with nautilus running as root didn’t appear. Immediately I thought I had hosed my script. So I went to the terminal and ran sudo nautilus and received a segmentation fault error.
Eventually I got around to removing the cd and found that it was the cause of my problems. After the cd was removed, nautilus ran fine. Without removing the cd, nautilus can be ran as root from the terminal using the command sudo dbus-launch nautilus. DBUS is an interprocess communication api. dbus-launch should start a dbus-dameon running in the background and allow nautilus to run as root.
KJ
