In the past I've seen problems on my sisters' computer that sound similiar to what you've described and I've blown way the files that are created with Gnome is setup (this is on a box running Mandrake 9.2) the next time one of them logs in the files get recreated and this usually resolves the issue, and in times when it didn't work (because I just didn't seem to be hitting the nail on the head), I backed up their "stuff" (docs and so forth) created a new login for them, put their "stuff" into their new home and let them use it and if the problem went away, I'd just let them use this new login, or blow away their home dir and recover it with the copy.
While it's certainly not elegant, it usually resolves their issues pretty quickly.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
On 11/29/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a
> reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes
> haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the
> past I've found that if we log her out and then in the console kill
> all processes left running with her account as the owner that she can
> then log back in and use Gnome correctly.
>
> This evening one of these processes was unkillable. I tried
>
> kill -15 PID
> kill -9 PID
> killall -9 process_name
>
> but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted.
>
> Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
The times this has happened to my I used htop to send a SIGSEGV to
make the program think it segfaulted and that caused the program to
die. Its probably a horribly sloppy hack but it has worked for me in
the past.
-Mike
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