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On 12/28/2014 08:15 AM, dep wrote:
sorry to be such a bother, but as long as i'm bringing things up, here's one that has been an issue for a couple of years and survived into R14.
my desktop crashes, but in such a way as to not even be noticeable at first.
i have in lieu of wallpaper xplanet set up as a realtime moon phase indicator, updating hourly. the way i tell the desktop has crashed is that it doesn't update -- in this case it last refreshed at 10:30 a.m. yesterday. i believe that i was probably editing pictures at that time, though would not swear to it.
after it crashes, a right click on the desktop does not produce the expected menu. as it happens, kicker and everything else continues to function as expected -- in fact, it was just now that i noticed that the desktop itself had gone south.
i thought i'd look in the x error log, bit i see that the one i have, ~/.xsession-errors, is of an unspecified file type and won't open in a text editor (it reports its size as 500.0 k).
any idea if there's a log that might let me see what's going on here and if so what log it might be? bonus points, how i might restart the desktop without logging out and back in? extra bonus points, how i might fix it so it doesn't do this anymore? i'm running some flavor of ubuntu 12.04LTS -- i say some flavor because when i sought to upgrade a few days ago the ubuntu upgrader refused, citing third-party apps or a beta version of the opsys, or something; it didn't specify. i thought i had bog standard 12.04LTS on the machine but am apparently wrong.
Hi, sorry for the late reply. The desktop behavior is controlled by the kdesktop process. When your desktop stops updating, from CLI type: ps aux | grep desktop and see if there is something like: username 8414 0.4 0.7 260192 28956 pts/8 Sl 12:50 0:00 kdesktop
If not, kdesktop has crashed. You can type: kdesktop & from CLI to restart it (or alternatively Alt-F2 and then kdesktop).
If this brings everything back in order, please let us know because we need some more advanced testing to understand why and where kdesktop crashed.
Cheers Michele