My Nautilus, suddenly, WON'T! RH9.0

[posterboy]

I don't know how this happened. Click on Nautilus, nothing happens. But, a ps -ef reveals nautilus-throbber is running. I kill that, then try it from the CLI. Nothing, but, nautilus-throbber runs again. No error is reported. I was using the ximian version of this. Hmmm. I install the redhat package. No change. Next, i remove the users .nautilus. No change. Then i learn that nautilus works just fine, IF it is run by root. Hmmm. I copy root's .nautilus to the user, chown and chgrp as needed, no change. I am out of ideas. What's next, anyone?
TIA, Ray

[posterboy]

Well, it beats me! There's a new nvidia driver, as we all know, so I got that, and that meant I had to drop out of X for a while. After the restart, Nautilus works just fine as a user. I just have no idea what was going on with that, but, it's now a sleeping dog, and I am not going to wake it.
Thanks, Ray

[posterboy]

Well, rats! It woke itself, This morning, same symptoms as in the original post. Can someone point me in a direction to solve this, please?

[gosam]

at one time i had a similar problem, it's being on the net when you changed your hostname without adding it to /etc/hosts.
just add a line containing
127.0.0.1 yourhostname


hope it helps.

[posterboy]

I did _not_ have that in my /etc/hosts. I had my live IP and my 198.162 addies, but not the localhost. I added that, but the results are inconclusive for now, as the darn thing worked just fine this morning. After a few days, we will know something, for sure. Thank you!
Ray

[posterboy]

We are now 2 days into this, and Nautilus hasn't failed since the changes you pointed me to. YEAY! I think this one can be put to bed, now.
THANKS again!
Ray