Yes, I have tried logging and in and it didn't work. I also trtried
just running (in an xterm) nautilus and it seems to hang so it probably
is a lock file. Unfotunately, clearing out /tmp isn't so easy because
apache/php keeps session info there so I have to audit it. Thanks.
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 00:15, Voltage Spike wrote:
> > On Monday 29 July 2002 11:47 pm, Bryce C wrote:
> > Just a couple of hours ago, I had sawfish/nautilus (I'm not sure which)
> > managing my desktop, not just being the window manager. However, I had
> > to kill a nautilus window (it was probably nautilus doing my desktop)
> > and then all my desktop icons, whatnot, was gone (it was nautilus). Can
> > someone please tell me how to restore this?
>
> I know this might sound silly, but did you try logging out and back in? If
> that doesn't work, then you probably have a lock file hanging around. Log
> out of all your shells and (as root) 'rm -fr /tmp/*'. Note that this should
> be safe, but it might cause problems if a running process had a file there.
> If possible, you might 'init s' (single user mode), remove the files, and
> then 'init 5' (to bring back the graphical login manager).
>
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