Nautilus breaks my desktop

tsorvoja · #1 2nd November 2006, 10:08 AM

Hi all,
Somehow I managed to lose my background image and desktop icons in my FC4. Plus nautilus won't start from terminal. It just hangs and outputs no errors... This occurs with new users I created and old ones.
I managed to get info about this from here and deleted .gno*, .gtk*, .nautilus*, .gconf* directories but it didn't work. I also tried "su -c /etc/cron.daily/prelink", but it helped for first session, but second sessions desktop was again broken...

Please help me... I don't want to stick with KDE until I make a fresh install of FC6...someday...

tsorvoja · #2 2nd November 2006, 03:19 PM

Ok, I ran "su -c /etc/cron.daily/prelink" again only in console and rebooted computer. Seems to work now, but I'll post here if problem re-occurs.

tsorvoja · #3 2nd November 2006, 04:33 PM

Yep, nautilus still hangs for some reason and breaks the desktop... It seems to be a zombie process.

tsorvoja · #4 2nd November 2006, 04:34 PM

Yep, nautilus still hangs for some reason and breaks the desktop... It seems to be a zombie process and I'm unable to kill it...

***Dan*** · #5 2nd November 2006, 04:46 PM

This sounds really familiar. Do you get any oddball error messages or any [FAIL]s during the shutdown process? And do you have an external USB Iomega CDRW attached to the system?

Dan

tsorvoja · #6 2nd November 2006, 05:00 PM

Actually I had an USB memory stick, but I disconnection doesn't fix the situation (like in some thread) and there aren't any FAILs during startup or shutdown process.

I took a look at /var/log/messages and found out that nautilus generates a bunch of kernel error messages. It seems that there's something really broken there... I'm able to make nautilus start by rebooting linux, but it's totally erratic. Log out from Gnome makes nautilus crash again (and jam), which brakes the desktop again...

I think I'll have to stick with KDE... no fence KDE'ers

***Dan*** · #7 2nd November 2006, 05:14 PM

Hmmm. Ok. I had these exact same symptoms on my RH9 system. Finally traced it down to the external USB CD burner. It was also intermittent, which didn't make it any easier to find.

I guess the only thing you can do is go through those error messages and chase down the culprit that way.

Good luck with it.

Dan

tsorvoja · #8 3rd November 2006, 07:32 AM

Yikes!! Seems that there is something wrong with my linux partition (or hd is broken). I managed to get kernel panic during boot. :O Made boot with rescue cd and there was something wrong with my homedir ~/. Filelisting not possible (ls), but I was able to copy files with exact filenames (e.g. *.doc won't work).

Maybe it's a good time to make a fresh install of FC6 to another drive and try to recover files that way...naww, I'll try to recover all files that I remember and run fsck to that partition and FC6 comes after that...

***Dan*** · #9 3rd November 2006, 05:27 PM

Yuck! That sucks! If it was me I'd check the connections and cables to the drive first. But I'd sure be ordering a new one too!

Dan

tsorvoja · #10 4th November 2006, 10:58 PM

Installed FC6 and back on business in a new HD. Thanks for the support