Comment 5 for bug 160033
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| Christophe Olinger (olingerc) wrote Re: weird things happen on desktop | #5 |
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I had exactly the same thing happen to me yesterday. I had 2 file browser windows open to compile an mp3 cd. From one window I was quickly opening mp3 files to have a quick listen with totem movie player and if I liked the file, I dragged it into another folder in the second browser. After 20 files, the exact symptoms described in this bug report appeared.
I then checked my system monitor and found nautilus was using 50% of system resources. CTRL-ALT_DEL and a new login brought back the desktop, but not always. At other times (I had the problems at least a dozen times) after supplying my login and password I just got a brown screen and nothing happened (I could still switch to terminal with CTRL-ALT-F1). At other times, the desktop came back but no wallpaper and no icons on the Desktop.
By the way, the MP3 file were on a mounted NTFS partition.
For the rest I really had the same symptoms as posted above.
Please tell me what more info you need.