I had this problem for 2-3 days, everytime I started Nautilus (within same session, login-logout, etc). Based on my logs (different error messages), I found other bugs related to nautilus and tried many different things. It was fixed when I changed in a Nautilus window (after waiting 5-10 minutes for the hang to stop): Edit>Preferences>Views>List View Default>Default zoom level>75% (or gconf-editor apps>nautilus>list_view>default_zoom_level>small if Nautilus cannot never starts) and removed 8000+ thumbnails created in .thumbnails subfolders (but I didn't removed the folders) to get back to my prefered list view at 25% (smallest).
I understand that killing Nautilus is a quick fix and it worked for me too (at least when I didn't need Nautilus), but I wanted to go further to find why this bug. I found that a faulty thumbnail can lead to a non working Nautilus. I couln't check each of 8000 created thumbnails and since Nautilus re-builds thumbnails when it needs it ... In addition if you kill Nautilus at gdm session's end, you shouldn't be able to save your session state for it. You might loose this function. -- [Gutsy] high processor activity after logging out and then logging in again https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150471 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
