[ubuntu-za] Nautilus Desktop frozen

[Wesley Werner]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:47 PM, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <
ethnopunk at telkomsa.net> wrote:

>
>
> Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
> >
> >
> >> This is what I get in the terminal when I try to restart nautilus
> >>
> >> nautilus
> >> /home/afrodeity/.gtkrc-2.0:2: error: scanner: unterminated string
> >> constant - e.g. `style'
> >>
> >
> > Try deleting ~/.gtkrc-2.0:2 and ~/.nautilus and below and try again.
> >
> > Cheers,  Andy!
> >
> >
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I tried updating with a patched version of nautilus. The .gtkrcXXX error
> has gone away. I see there is no longer a .gtkrcXXX folder in my home
> folder. I tried deleting the .nautilus folder, but no luck.
>
> -D


Hi David

I'm stumped, without error messages to work off, it can be a hardware
problem. I've seen some crazy random stuff happen from faulty memory, or bad
sectors on the HDD. Enter the menu Admin -> Disk Utility, and check the
health status of your disk.
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