On 6/9/05, kas <kas11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Blank desktop too ... no background nor icons? If so, you might try > bonobo-slay, perhaps repeatedly, from a terminal while running gnome. I Bonobo-slay kills off the stalled nautilus (along with everything else), but doesn't fix the problem. Nautilus still hangs the next time I start it. > Cleaning out everything in /tmp that the user owned > didn't help much here, nor did trimming things out of my session seem to > do much, but some combination of those things finally made the problem > go away ... Nope, I've tried the /tmp thing too, no joy. although it may have been the phase of the moon or the fact > the I occasionally shake a Phillips screwdriver at the offending box > whilst speaking sharp words and making thinly veiled threats. Hm, now that I haven't tried. I'll let you know how it goes :-) > Dev help > has some info on bonobo-activation- servers that may help too. Can't > say that google was my friend this time. Hm, OK, that's something... [bcs@ripley ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server libbonobo-2.8.0-2 [bcs@ripley ~]$ ldd /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server libbonobo-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0 (0x073c5000) libbonobo-activation.so.4 => /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4 (0x0741f000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x001aa000) libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 (0x006d2000) libORBit-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 (0x07371000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00df9000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00b06000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x00987000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0010b000) libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x00878000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00bf8000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00b0c000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00ae1000) libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x005f9000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x009b5000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0099b000) Looks kosher to me... -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves