Nautilus

[Loban Rahman <loban enigma caltech edu>]

So today I decided I to try out Nautilus. I downloaded all the packages
mentioned in the HACKING file from CVS, and compiled them with
--prefix=$HOME/usr so as not to interfere with my current Gnome
installation.

There were a couple of things that I needed to do to make it work, in
particular linking the *Conf.sh files in $HOME/usr/lib to /usr/lib so
that gnome-config finds them (anyway to tell gnome-config to check
other directories for *Conf.sh files?) and installing some other packages
like makeinfo and libwww.

Anyay, I got everything (OAF, GConf, Bonobo, Gnome-VFS, GtkHtml, etc,
etc, etc, and Nautilus) compiled and installed in $HOME/usr. Then came
the big moment: typing nautilus at the terminal.

I got this:

sh: syntax error near unexpected token `(n'
sh: -c: line 1: `cp -R (null) /home/loban/Nautilus'

** WARNING **: could not execute 'cp -R (null) /home/loban/Nautilus'.  Make sure you typed 'make install'

** ERROR **: file nautilus-file-utilities.c: line 191 (nautilus_user_main_directory): should not be reached
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

Here is the backtrace:

#0  0x407e3d41 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x406f0217 in raise (sig=6) at signals.c:65
#2  0x407e50d8 in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:88
#3  0x400cd643 in g_logv (log_domain=0x0, log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, 
    format=0x40758460 "file %s: line %d (%s): should not be reached", 
    args1=0xbffff5a0) at gmessages.c:389
#4  0x400cd706 in g_log (log_domain=0x0, log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, 
    format=0x40758460 "file %s: line %d (%s): should not be reached")
    at gmessages.c:406
#5  0x4071cbc8 in nautilus_user_main_directory ()
   from /home/loban/usr/lib/libnautilus-extensions.so.0
#6  0x40725055 in user_level_changed_callback ()
   from /home/loban/usr/lib/libnautilus-extensions.so.0
#7  0x407251b5 in nautilus_global_preferences_startup ()
   from /home/loban/usr/lib/libnautilus-extensions.so.0
#8  0x8061e04 in nautilus_app_class_init ()
#9  0x404604da in gtk_type_class_init (type=47637) at gtktypeutils.c:598
#10 0x4045fbd4 in gtk_type_class (type=47637) at gtktypeutils.c:342
#11 0x4045fcc7 in gtk_type_new (type=47637) at gtktypeutils.c:362
#12 0x4041df76 in gtk_object_new (object_type=47637, first_arg_name=0x0)
    at gtkobject.c:581
#13 0x8061ea4 in nautilus_app_new ()
#14 0x80644b8 in main ()
#15 0x407dd9cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8064250 <main>, argc=1, 
    argv=0xbffff874, init=0x8054184 <_init>, fini=0x808074c <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000ae60 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff86c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92

So, what happened? If I did something wrong, what was it?
Shucks ... so close yet so far ....

	= L

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