Fixed by updating nautilus. Yes, I should have applied all the updates immediately after the install, but as usual we were in a rush. More haste, *much* less speed in this case. I live, and sometimes learn... Cheers, Terry > Hi all, > > Having just spent a nice few days moving over to FC12 I thought I'd add > the final touch and install control-center-extras so that I could regain > focus control over my windows. (Why was this removed to an optional extra I wonder?) > The result of doing this is that I now get millions of instantiations of the > Gnome File-Manager and everythib=ng eventually grinds to a halt. > > My way out of this was to break into basic screen mode with CTRL/ALT/F1 > then modify /etc/inittab to force the system to start up in mode3 instead of > mode5 and reboot. This then gave me the oppotunity to 'yum remove control-center-extras' > but this hasnt fixed the problem. > > I had previously tried installing the ndiswrapper stuff, and so was running with > kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE, but rebooting with the original kernel > (2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686) makes no difference. > > Does anyone know a fix for this or have I got to do a complete re-install? > > Cheers, > Terry > > > > > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines