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Nautilus File Manager autostarts a number of times

Asked by jayantpd

Three months back i upgraded from Lucid (fresh install via live CD) to Maverick. Things were going well, till recent; one day i logged in and Nautilus File Manager started opening infinite times. I googled and finally not getting any solution killed all instances of Nautilus (killall nautilus), and fall back to Dolphin File Manager.

Again when i open nautilus via terminal, it says "segmentation fault", and nautilus doesn't start.

This is happening to other user accounts too on my PC. Also, desktop icons/folders are not visible on the desktop.

I browsed to this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1545639, which says it's because of some virus problem, however, this wasn't any expert-opinion.

In my case also, i have also used Win2-7Pack_v6.2_Multilang_Aero to make my system feel like Windows 7. I was using it on Lucid too, and hadn't faced any problem.

May i know, if there is any fix to this, or have to format and re-install the system again.

Thanks n regards,
Jayant

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

"I browsed to this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1545639, which says it's because of some virus problem, however, this wasn't any expert-opinion."

That wasn't *anyone's* opinion. Saiph (the original poster) mentioned a virus problem, but did not express the belief that it was the cause of this issue.

Saiph also found a solution and posted about it, in the second (and final) post in that thread. Did you try that solution?

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