Something went terribly wrong and, after a C++ program I was working on crashed, my terminal and nautilus (files) stopped working.
I managed to install Terminator (another shell emulator), here is what I am getting when trying to start Terminal from Terminator:
(gnome-shell:779): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 01:49:35.532: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. (gnome-shell:779): mutter-WARNING **: 01:49:35.532: Unable to initialize Clutter.
Here is what I get when launching Nautilus (btw somehow I can launch it from Terminator but not by clicking the icon)
** (nautilus:445): WARNING **: 01:48:33.021: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name ** (nautilus:445): WARNING **: 01:48:33.026: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name ** (nautilus:445): WARNING **: 01:48:33.031: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name
..... another 10-15 repetitions of that error ....
** (nautilus:445): WARNING **: 01:48:33.509: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name ** (nautilus:445): WARNING **: 01:48:33.509: AT-SPI: Could not obtain desktop path or name
Any pointers on how I can get things back to normal?
EDIT: It does persist after reboot.