On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]>wrote:

>  The Zombie process is a bit strange. I've pasted some information below.
> As you  might expect 'kill -9' has no effect, but if I kill its parent
> process things do not end well. I lose bits of the Menu bar on the bottom of
> the screen.
>
> dougie@phoenix ~ $
> dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -ef | grep shotwell
> dougie    1939  1717  5 19:17 ?        00:00:39 [shotwell] <defunct>
> dougie    2023  1862  0 19:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --colour=auto shotwell
> dougie@phoenix ~ $
> dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1939
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> dougie    1939  1717  5 19:17 ?        00:00:39 [shotwell] <defunct>
> dougie@phoenix ~ $
> dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> dougie    1717     1  0 19:14 ?        00:00:03 python
> /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
> dougie@phoenix ~ $
> dougie@phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717 | fold
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> dougie    1717     1  0 19:14 ?        00:00:03 python
> /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMe
> nu/mintMenu.py --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_mintMenu_Factory
> --oaf-ior-fd=18
> dougie@phoenix ~ $
>
>
Does this happen if you run from the command line or just from the menu?

 I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the package manager in Linux Mint 10
> (Julia) and hit problems that I couldn't get beyond. valac and gstreamer
> deps IIRC. I tried using the repo on the shotwell website but it installed
> 0.10 and I'm really keen on the hierarchical tagging. I didn't pursue it
> because I've been meaning to move to Linux Mint for Debian for some time and
> I have wiped my PC and run LXDE. I compiled from the source tarball so I'm
> not sure how to purge before starting over.
>

I've just been told the way to do this is to run make uninstall, then log
out and log back in. The settings should be gone.



> Anyway, I'm hoping not to have to do that again. Since shotwell overwrote
> my photos metadata during the import I might as well carry on! It's a lot
> different to f-spot and there are things I miss, but it's very fast, and I
> like that a lot!
>

Glad to hear it!

 - Eric
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