On 14/09/2011 19:21, Eric Gregory wrote:
Hi Dougie,
What can you tell us about this zombie process that's left behind? I'd
be curious to know the name of the process and what happens when you
try to kill it.
Hi Eric,
The Zombie process is a bit strange. I've pasted some information below.
As you might expect 'kill -9' has no effect, but if I kill its parent
process things do not end well. I lose bits of the Menu bar on the
bottom of the screen.
dougie@phoenix ~ $
dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -ef | grep shotwell
dougie 1939 1717 5 19:17 ? 00:00:39 [shotwell] <defunct>
dougie 2023 1862 0 19:29 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto
shotwell
dougie@phoenix ~ $
dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1939
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dougie 1939 1717 5 19:17 ? 00:00:39 [shotwell] <defunct>
dougie@phoenix ~ $
dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dougie 1717 1 0 19:14 ? 00:00:03 python
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
dougie@phoenix ~ $
dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717 | fold
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
dougie 1717 1 0 19:14 ? 00:00:03 python
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMe
nu/mintMenu.py --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_mintMenu_Factory
--oaf-ior-fd=18
dougie@phoenix ~ $
To answer your question, depending on the version of Shotwell, prefs
used to be stored in GConf but if you're running Shotwell 0.11 or
better they're stored in GSettings. Your best bet for these types of
issues is to do a "complete remove" of the Shotwell package in your
package manager and reinstall.
I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the package manager in Linux Mint 10
(Julia) and hit problems that I couldn't get beyond. valac and gstreamer
deps IIRC. I tried using the repo on the shotwell website but it
installed 0.10 and I'm really keen on the hierarchical tagging. I didn't
pursue it because I've been meaning to move to Linux Mint for Debian for
some time and I have wiped my PC and run LXDE. I compiled from the
source tarball so I'm not sure how to purge before starting over.
Anyway, I'm hoping not to have to do that again. Since shotwell
overwrote my photos metadata during the import I might as well carry on!
It's a lot different to f-spot and there are things I miss, but it's
very fast, and I like that a lot!
Dougie
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