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