Re: nautilus crashing

[Takis Diakoumis <takisd alphalink com au>]

sorry, should have added that.

suse 9.0
gnome v2.4.1
kernel v2.4.21-166-smp4G

nautilus does come back occasionally when i close the window using the
close window widget. i get a dialog 'force quit' and that sometimes
works (not always). i have tried both run application dialog and typing
nautilus in a terminal but nothing happens.

thanks

Takis

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 02:18, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> What Linux distribution and version are you using, and which version of
> GNOME does it ship with?
> 
> So far as Nautilus disappearing, it should reappear on its own.  If not,
> try using the panel Run Application item and type 'nautilus' in as the
> program to run.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 09:32, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > i noticed nautilus began to hang and then just crash taking the desktop
> > (and whatever work i had open) with it. i'm very new to linux and had no
> > idea what was happening as there didn't seem to be a pattern or sequence
> > of events that led to the dump.
> > 
> > i have since noticed that it hangs (and then dumps everything) when a
> > mount which is open or was open at some stage in nautilus disappears
> > without being properly unmounted. this has occurred for both mounting of
> > nfs and samba shares and also cds. basically if the windows box is shut
> > down or the other linux box is shutdown before they are unmounted -->
> > dump!!
> > 
> > ok, i think i understand how this happens (even win explorer can dump
> > when it loses a network share) but the tight coupling of nautilus to the
> > desktop dumps everything else also (as can win explorer dumping kill the
> > desktop). 
> > 
> > is there any way to recover from such a crash - some sort of work-around
> > to this sort of thing happening that could prevent nautilus from dumping
> > or indeed a fix to the situation when it does happen. currently i have
> > to ctrl-alt-f1 to get a prompt, login as root and reboot the machine -
> > again, newbie here i'm sure there is some way to kill the user's session
> > at this point and then i can login again or something (something better
> > even!!)
> > 
> > anyway, i hope i'm clear enough about the problem.
> > any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > 
> > thanks
> > Takis
> > 
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