Under certain conditions, selecting 'rename' by any means (keyboard shortcut, Edit menu, context menu) doesn't work (nothing happens).  This applies to any file and directory.

This happens all the time for any file in List View.

Files not in the first column in Compact View cannot be renamed, but only if there's a scrollbar, _and_ the gap between the bottom row and the bottom of the window is greater than a certain amount.  This amount appears to depend on the height of the rows - the taller the row, the larger the gap can be.  (Strange, right?)  Even when the window's resized horizontally, whether files can be renamed changes according to which column they end up in.

Nautilus doesn't print anything to stdout at all, including startup and attempting to rename.

This is 3.0.1.1 on Arch Linux (should be pretty close to vanilla, if not entirely unmodified).

It might not be helpful, but I noticed that opening the context menu when a file in one of the last few (not sure which, exactly) columns in Compact View makes the view jump, sometimes a whole column to the left, but only under the exact same conditions as those under which files can't be renamed in Compact View (scrollbars present, large enough gap beneath the bottom row).