On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 01:36 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
When Gnome starts up, the desktop icons do not appear.
When I try to logout, get a popup window saying "File Manager not
responding".
There is an option to logout anyway. If I choose that, it logs
out successfully.
This behavior seems to only occur after the first time I log in.
The first time after a reboot, everything happens as expected --
desktop
icons appear and logout goes without a hitch.
This is a test machine, so I can load experimental software on it
if necessary.
Well, no need for experimental. Does it still happen if you upgrade
nautilus and gnome-session to the unstable versions?
Cheers,
Sadly, that did not help.
Well, now I know what caused it:
The machine in question has a zip drive that is semi-non-functional.
I was getting "interrupt timed out" on /dev/hdd.
When I disconnected the zip drive (I don't plan to use it anymore -
USB flash drives are more practical these days...) the problem went
away.
It looks like the file manager was polling /dev/hdd and not getting
any response -- waiting for a timeout...
I'd like to leave this report open -- perhaps at "wishlist" priority
-- as a way of hoping that, in the future, a more graceful way can be
found to deal with this sort of malfunctioning non-critical hardware...
Thanks for the help!
Rick
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