nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gconf_client_get()

Using Gnome Shell. Nautilus constantly crashes. External media inserted (SD Card) and opened. Went to change directories once and crashed... then on restart, went to open additional pane and it carashed.

(Similar behavior exhibited with VLC in ubuntu... doing anything other than letting opened video play... locks up system.)

Never experienced anything like this on any previous *buntus (user since 07.04). One would think the file manager would be stable. Only started a week and half ago when updates to 11.10 beta 2 were done. Has been one or two massive upgrades since then... but issue persists.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus-open-terminal 0.19-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Oct 8 20:56:00 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcCmdline: nautilus -n
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no User Name)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x10fef99 <gconf_client_get+57>: cmp %eax,(%edx)
 PC (0x010fef99) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "(%edx)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus-open-terminal
StacktraceTop:
 gconf_client_get () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
 gconf_client_get_bool () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
 nautilus_open_terminal_get_file_items () from /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-open-terminal.so
 nautilus_menu_provider_get_file_items () from /usr/lib/libnautilus-extension.so.1
 ?? ()
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gconf_client_get()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (35 days ago)
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