Re: [trinity-users] desktop crashing

said Gerhard Zintel: | > avahi     1973  0.0  0.0  32308  1732 ?        S     2014   0:01 | > avahi-daemon: running [dep-desktop.local] | > dep       3200  0.0  0.1 252184 17972 ?        Sl    2014 | > 1:04 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop | > dep      11289  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z     2014   0:02 | > [kdesktop_lock] <defunct> | > dep      29758  0.0  0.0   9388   904 pts/0    S+   16:12   0:00 grep | > desktop | > | > nevertheless, it hasn't updated since 10:19:53 AM 26 December. and a | > rmb click on the desktop does not produce the expected menu. | > | > | If not, kdesktop has crashed. You can type: | > | kdesktop & from CLI to restart it (or alternatively Alt-F2 and then | > | kdesktop). | > | > dep@dep-desktop:~$ kdesktop is already running! | > | > | 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. | > | > fwiw, top reports 3 zombies. | | have you tried to kill the running kdesktop beforehand (not the | defuncts)? I assume it runns under process number 3200. Thus: | $ kill -9 3200 | | and than launch kdesktop again? this worked. i do not know if we learned anything from its having worked, but work it did.