I can reproduce this with home directory on NFS4 (OpenSolaris server) and no problems with the mount, nautilus will hang indefinitely...
p...@pundit:~$ pwd /data/paul p...@pundit:~$ echo ~paul /data/paul p...@pundit:~$ df -h ~paul Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on opensolaris:/data/paul 550G 21G 529G 4% /data/paul p...@pundit:~$ egrep /data/paul /etc/fstab opensolaris:/data/paul /data/paul nfs4 rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 p...@pundit:~$ mount | egrep /data/paul opensolaris:/data/paul on /data/paul type nfs4 (rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,clientaddr=192.168.4.100,addr=192.168.4.3) p...@pundit:~$ time nautilus (nautilus:31200): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (nautilus:31200): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. -- nautilus Unique-DBus-WARNING https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379183 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs