Re: Broken system - ok now

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Yes, I just renamed the entire .nautilus directory and logged back on, and it created a working set of files for me. Since all the other users were working ok I could assume that it was something in my directories. Thanks for the help, it is quite difficult being this early on the learning curve.

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Chad
check /tmp or home/user/tmp for a lock file. You could use move to transfer every thing out of them and then try runing Nautilus if you can't work out which file it is. Chad > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > > directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a > > thumbn

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a > thumbnails directory which doesn;t seem relevant. > > Any ideas where to look to sort ou Nautilus? Unfortunatly Nautilus isn't working at the moment for me (aaah, Debian Unstable---but I u

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Yes, thanks. I have fixed up Mozilla, and also logged on as another user and found that Nautilus works fine except when i try to run it form my own account. But I can;t find any file to remove/change. under .nautilus there is one file (which is an old firsttime file from the install) and a metafil

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned > deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full file system check at > that point. The system came up apparently ok but... There are two things that can go wrong when you have to r

Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Help! I am running redhat 8. I came in this morning and found the machine (an IBM laptop) with the disk whirring and the screen blank. It wouldn't wake up, so I restarted it. The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full f