[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-27 Thread Bachsau
I'm also encountering this issue since a few days, and I'm using Lucid. When it happens, there's always an uname zombie too. As natilus refuses to start another instance, and both are children of init, the only option is to reboot the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Forsyth
Thanks for writing. In my case it was a miss behaving program, bst.linux, which is an IDE for writing programs for Propeller. This program was never completely finished and was last updated in March 2010. I suspect that it could not cope with the newer GTK files as it would crash when opening

[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-17 Thread Sebastien Bacher
right, the fact that you are the only one to get that issue combined with it stopping when not using that software suggest that the software is indeed acting buggy and leading to the issue, I'm closing the bug, thanks for the update! ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete =

Re: [Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Forsyth
Sebastien. An update. I ran nautilus for two days without a problem. I did not use bst.linux the program that fails. I suspect that bst.linux 'leaks' and corrupts other programs does that make sense to you? I understand that bst was written and compile in Delphi. The last and I suspect final

[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-13 Thread Sebastien Bacher
do you get any error in /var/log/syslog when the issue happens? could you copy the log to the bug? that bug is a bit weird, when you get the issue is nautilus still displaying icons on your background? what happens graphically? could you run ps uafx | grep nautilus and copy the output to the bug?

Re: [Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-13 Thread Michael Forsyth
Sebastien I shut down every night I will leave nautilus open and capture syslog. I looked back at syslog.7 to see if there was anything Yes it is weird. Nautilus graphic stays on the screen but does not respond to clicks. I use ps and kill to clear the screen. ps uafx | grep nautilus mike

[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions: * Is this reproducible? * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? This will help us to find and resolve the problem. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)

Re: [Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Forsyth
Sebastien, Yes it happens every time I leave it open on that particular version of ubuntu. It does not happen on my 64 bit system. We actually have 3 machines running ubuntu but the third one has not been in use for long enough to know. We would need to set up 32 bit machine open nautilus

[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-03-09 Thread Michael Forsyth
Current work around is open nautilus, use it, close it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939661 Title: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and

[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Forsyth
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[Bug 939661] Re: After a short period of use nautilus no longer reponds and becomes a zombie

2012-02-23 Thread Michael Forsyth
I just tried to open lastlog in a gedit from nautilus. it failed and gedit no longer responds. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939661 Title: After a short period