Em Ter, 2003-12-16 às 17:30, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria > Corcete Dutra (ldutra@prefeitura.sp.gov.br) wrote: > > > Nautilus will freeze on all terminals at the same time, and refuse to > > display icons, open windows or refresh already open windows. It's > > impossible also to quit the Gnome session, but most other buttons are > > working, so one can open apps and use them to open files anyway. > > Are do you have any network-mounted drives/partitions? What filesystem > are you using for these (e.g.: NFS, samba, ...?). Network timeouts are > a great way to confound apps. Yes, I had... inherited some mounts of NFS from client machines, bad practice indeed. On your advice have eliminated them. Now I would need to wait and see if the problem reoccurs... There is also a SMB mount but it is user level, I don't think I can eliminate that. > In general, if you're trying to track down odd application errors, > 'strace' is your friend. OK, but how should I use strace with nautilus? Perhaps put it in a script at /usr/bin/nautilus with redirection to a log file? > > The weirder of all is that I can't kill Nautilus after it freezes. > > There are some defunct processes, but be it a killall -KILL or a kill > > -KILL no process dies, and I'm forced to reboot the server. > > 'kill -9'? That's terminate with extreme prejudice, but is one way of > determining whether or not the problem is the application or I/O layer. Yes, because -HUP and -TERM did nothing I was forced to -KILL. But what exactly -KILL not working means? > You might also want to try running 'lsof' or 'fuser' to see what file(s) > are being held open. But check what? I am used to fuser or lsof a file or directory, but what should be the parameter here? -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <ldutra@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga Governo Eletrônico, Telecentros +55 (11) 5080 9647 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5080 9648
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