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 w
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Mark Knecht 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
On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Nope. Usually this means something went terribly wrong
Hi,
As far as I know, this happens, when a process waiting for a hardware
resource.
Maybe something happened, which blocks the hardware, that means, the
kernel process never returns to the userspace.
This can be caused by bad/buggy hardware or buggy driver.
So, Richard is right, check your
On 11/28/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 th
Richard Fish wrote:
> Pullling a hard drive out of the system while it is running is an easy
> way to duplicate this problem, as it will cause the kernel to enter an
> interminable reset loop to try and recover
I do not claim that what you said is not true, but once in
the past, when I was youn
On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I do not claim that what you said is not true, but once in
> the past, when I was young and dumb (now I'm old and dumb)
> I intentionally pulled out that 80-wire data-cable from one
> of my 2 ata-disks during heavy i/o-loading (copying
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
Do you and your wife have separate logons and if so, does this only happen when she is logged into her account using Gnome?
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
"kill -9 -1" should just kill all her processes, even the Xsession
that she owns, and restart X. I would restart your manager (xdm, gdm)
just to be sure.
While you have your gnome locked, you could check what is running and
if any process is defunct at console, so you would know wich app
and/or gn
Mark Knecht wrote:
kill -15 PID
kill -9 PID
killall -9 process_name
see if you can perform a "top" and find the process that is hung.
if it has a state of "D", then you can't kill it. It's waiting for some
type of IO or for some hardware. This is typical of a hardware failure,
buggy driver,
Mark Knecht wrote:
Possibly it's a video driver issue?
I'd say this is probably the first place to start looking. Try using an
open source X driver and see if the problem goes away.
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> Sometimes something about her setup goes
> haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper.
I've had a similar issue and, for me, it's usually nautilus erroring.
If I run '$ nautilus &' that usually fixes things (brings back
wallpaper, icons, panels, etc)..
HTH
-- Travis
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On 11/30/05, Travis Osterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sometimes something about her setup goes
> > haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper.
>
> I've had a similar issue and, for me, it's usually nautilus erroring.
> If I run '$ nautilus &' that usually fixes things (brin
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Travis Osterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sometimes something about her setup goes
> > > haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper.
> >
> > I've had a similar issue and, for me, it's usually nautilus err
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