A number of interesting things have happened. First, as requested, I ran xrestop. This revealed a number of tasks under <unknown> that kept increasing in number, as predicted. To try and figure out what was creating these, I rebooted and only opened the terminal with xrestop. These <unknown> tasks began to appear with nothing other than the terminal running. So I looked for tasks that I could easily stop. Wallch, a wallpaper changer, was one I could control. After stopping Wallch, the <unknown> tasks quit increasing. I rebooted to clean things up and all stayed functional for several days. Reactivating Wallch brought back the problem.
Contacting Wallch, they had me upgrade from 4.00 to the latest release 4.16. Now the application fail to launch symptom is gone (as near as I can tell), but the <unknown> tasks continue to appear, adding one in most instances of a wallpaper switch. With the launch issue no longer appearing, the number of <unknowns> has grown to MUCH larger quantities than before, probably because I've not been forced to reboot as often. Pursuing with Wallch support. I also have noticed that just prior to an added <unknown> task, the nautilus task increases storage by 12141K in both the pxm mem and total columns. And then the <unknown> task is created with essentially the same amount - 12140K - and the nautilus task returns to it's prior storage usage. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364106 Title: Unable to launch programs ~18 hours post reboot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1364106/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
