Yes, thanks. I have fixed up Mozilla, and also logged on as another user and found that Nautilus works fine except when i try to run it form my own account.
But I can;t find any file to remove/change. under .nautilus there is one file (which is an old firsttime file from the install) and a metafiles directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a thumbnails directory which doesn;t seem relevant. Any ideas where to look to sort ou Nautilus? Thanks John (much happier) On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 10:23, Tim Wright wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > > > The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned > > deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full file system check at > > that point. The system came up apparently ok but... > > There are two things that can go wrong when you have to reboot your > computer like this. The first is that the file-system can become unstable, > creating invalid blocks. The filesystem check (which is similar to > scandisk under windows) fixes these problems automatically. > > The other problem is that applications might leave files in strange > states. For example, it appears that Mozilla has left a 'lock' file lying > around somewhere. You could delete your entire .mozilla directory, but > that will remove any preferences you have for mozilla. Better is to search > in that directory for a lock file. It will probably have "lock" in it's > file name. > > Your file-browser (called nautilus if you are running Gnome) probably has > a similar problem. Try looking in the .nautilus directory. > > Hope that helps, > > Tim Wright > > Assistant Lecturer > Department of Computer Science > University of Canterbury > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 >
