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I've experienced pretty much the same symptoms on a fresh SuSE
8.2 installation. If you've had any insights as to what is going on I'd be much
obliged for any advice.
In my case, I'd just managed to install my winmodem properly,
and was trying out browsers last night (newbie convert from Windows). After
running a few instances of Galeon, I found my desktop had changed over from KDE
to Gnome, and clicking on the KDE desktop icon just brought up a smallish
window, white background, with some of the objects that are on my KDE desktop in
it. This "desktop window" would not close, irrespective of whether I clicked on
the 'Close' button or used ALT-F4. The Linux session would not close down
either, and I had to crash out with my power button.
This morning, I booted up and tried to run K-Mail. The Gnome
desktop had gone, but my mouse cursor froze, my hard drive light went on full
time, and my whole system went totally sluggish. First message I got was that
Nautilus was searching my drives for 'Trash folders' , and later one that said
that Nautilus-throbber had crashed (fatal error or suchlike, error message
2147), then the system started spawning desktop folders (I'm not sure whether
these were Galeon or Nautilus), up to 30 at one stage, as well as
error messages (not sure which app, but definitely Gnome-like) to the effect
that the app concerned had failed to enter "icon view' (about 19 of those). All
the while, my hard drive light was on, and whatever was searching the drive was
sucking almost the entire system resources.
On the odd occasion when I got my mouse to respond, I tried to
right-click and close these, and sometimes a few would go off, only to be
replaced by new desktop folders.
I couldn't even get a Konsole to come up, so I went into text
mode [Shift-Alt-F2] to run killall, and eventually got the flood to subside by
killing nautilus AND bonobo. Btw, it's [Alt-F7] to get back to a graphical
interface.
I was not playing around with firewall installation, so I
would believe that you need not look further in that direction. Please keep me
posted if you get advice on this
Ziggy |