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 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
