Nautilus totally unresponsive

David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) ethnopunk at telkomsa.net
Wed Feb 10 06:26:49 UTC 2010



Rashkae wrote:
> David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
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>> Now why didn't I think about deleting ~/Desktop? Actually the thought 
>> had crossed my mind but I Googled and got lost in the general mayhem of 
>> free advice. Just goes to show how Google is actually leading to brain 
>> disease. I'm absolutely struck dumb and stupid by the solution which was 
>> staring at me but which got downsized by Google.
>>
>> It should have been the very first thing I did, but no always too open 
>> to suggestions on the forum, and a million other suggestions all not the 
>> right one. Thank you Rashkae, I owe you one.
>>
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> That narrows down the problem, but we should investigate what file, 
> exactly, was causing such mayhem.  It might just be a very serious bug 
> in Nautilus, which you might consider nothing more than an academic 
> exercise. I would be concerned about the possibility of an I/O error, 
> such as a bad sector on the HD that was causing the thumbnailer / Mime 
> detection to freeze.
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That would entail moving the folder back and removing files one by one I 
guess. I renamed it so I might do this when I have the time. Could just 
be a mime-type conflict. I should probably also do a harddrive scan. 
Thanks again.

DRL.




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