On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 04:46 -0500, Alan Shieh wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems with the file selector under Gnome 2.8. Something > in my persistent state causes every gnome 2.8 file selector dialog > (thunderbird 1.0, abiword-2.2...) to freeze before opening. Several > other gnome apps are broken as well: nautilus and desktop freeze on > startup. Other user accounts do not suffer from this problem. Do you have hald running, and are the HAL patches in your gnome-vfs? I filed a bug on Fedora just yesterday about how gnome-vfs seems to take a *long* time to giveup connecting to hald if it isn't running. > > Is there some standard way to roll back the persistent user state to > get rid of this type of problem? Log out. > > Also, how do I increase the verbosity of desktop, nautilus, or the > file selector dialog to diagnose this? If it's a lockup, my personal favorite tools are just gdb and strace. Strace in particular works well for most race conditions, gdb is necessary for any stuck loops. > > Thanks. > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
