Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

["Mirco Piccin" <pictux@gmail.com>]

Hi all, i've find a temporay solution...

>>>>  i'm running nautilus 2.20.0-6, and after a recent reboot nautilus is
refusing to manage the desktop

>>> check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help
>>> you.

>> There's no such file. What should be there?

> That's happened to me too: same release of nautilus.
> I think the problem is not nautilus, but the gtk libraries.
> In fact i'm having problems with my usual applications that use the
> gtk libraries.

It was posted by Christian Jaeger to the debian user mailing list, in
a topic with subject:
Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

As i've said, the problem is not nautilus.
The problem is related to new release of libxml.
Here i report the solution proposed by Christian, but i think it's a
good idea to read all the topic/replies.

> Solution: install libxml2 from unstable; this is actually a downgrade (from libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny to 2.6.32.dfsg-2). I.e.
> "apt-get install -t unstable libxml2/unstable", but you need to have the unstable sources in apt.sources and use apt pinning (I
> won't explain that here, check other sources).

Hope this helps!
Regards
M