Had a interesting issue with nautilus crashing everytime I would open it. It took me a little while to figure it out, but in the end I should have just read the debug info.

What was happening is as follows:

Backtrace was generated from ‘/usr/bin/nautilus’

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library “/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1″.
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1493682496 (LWP 29353)]
[New Thread -1510310992 (LWP 29407)]
[New Thread -1494733904 (LWP 29368)]
(no debugging symbols found)
No symbol table info available.
#12 0xa6e950ee in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/swf_loader.so
No symbol table info available.
#13 0×08418aa8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0×08411850 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#15 0×00001000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#16 0xa6e950be in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/swf_loader.so
No symbol table info available.
#17 0×083d8110 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#18 0xa5fa636c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#19 0xa5fa62a8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#20 0xa5f43f28 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libswfdec-0.3.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#21 0×083d8110 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#22 0xa5fa636c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#23 0xa5fa62b8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#24 0xa5ecfd8e in swfdec_decoder_add_data () from /usr/lib/libswfdec-0.3.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#25 0xa6e95377 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/swf_loader.so
No symbol table info available.
#26 0×0840fa60 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#27 0xa5fa636c in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

Seems something was going wrong with swf_loader… In my home dir was a file I created with openoffice, saved as swf. I had been doing some testing for someone here at work to see if I could convert a MS PowerPoint to SWF. Once this file had been deleted I could broswe my home dir and any other dir (except for my trash can).

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