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
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
opensolaris:
A few more details on versions...
p...@pundit:~$ nautilus --check
(nautilus:31370): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities
running nautilus_self_check_file_operations
running nautilus_self_check_dir