Re: nautilus does not start anymore after trying to connect to smb

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 17:10 +0100, Fabian Sturm wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> My nautilus does not start anymore and I can't figure out why. 
> 
> Thats what I did: 
> 
> I tried to connect to a smb share on a windows pc which hang forever in
> the connection dialog and also stalled any other nautilus operations,
> e.g. clicking on desktop icons... 
> After several retries with killing nautilus and restarting I gave up on
> connecting to the smb share and logged out. 
> 
> The log out of gnome also hang forever and I therefore killed it with
> ctrl-alt-bkspc. 
> 
> After a new log in nautilus did not come up again :-(
> 
> Therefore I tried to start nautilus in the console.
> But nautilus -c hangs forever after printing: 
> 
> running nautilus_self_check_search_uri 
> running nautilus_self_check_file_utilities 
> running nautilus_self_check_file_operations 
> running nautilus_self_check_directory 
> 
> and the last few lines of an strace of the hanging nautilus shows: 
> 
> [...] 
> rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...> 
> --- SIGRTMIN (Unknown signal 32) @ 0 (0) --- 
> <... rt_sigsuspend resumed> ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) 
> sigreturn() = ? (mask now [RTMIN]) 
> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], Cool = 0 
> rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas how to recover?? 
> Running bonobo-slay did not solve it. 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot, Fabian

Did you try to reboot?  See if killing gnome-vfs-daemon helps.

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John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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