Desktop Frozen after trying to launch NFS mounted folder fromNautilus

[Sudheer Satyanarayana]

Hello Peter,

Killing gdm didn't help, restarting the computer did.

Thanks for the quick response,

Roopnarine, Peter wrote:
>
> (Apologies all for top-posting; I am on the road and am forced to use 
> my institution's MS webmailer...)
>
> You could always just re-start the machine, but perhaps try this first.
> Drop to a terminal (ctl-alt-F1), login, and just kill gdm. Find the 
> PID with "ps -U <username>", and then "kill <PID>" or "kill -9 <PID>".
> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Sudheer Satyanarayana
> Sent: Tue 10/2/2007 10:09 AM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Desktop Frozen after trying to launch NFS mounted folder 
> fromNautilus
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using FC6 and GNOME. I had shortcut to an NFS shared folder on my
> desktop. Today I clicked the shortcut folder icon on the desktop and
> nautilus and desktop froze. I can't launch nautilus. The icons on the
> desktop are not visible either. Nothing happens when I right click on
> the desktop. Apparently the NFS server is down. I tried
> CTRL+ALT+Backspace and then swithing to runlevel 3 and back to runlevel 5.
>
> I still can't launch nautilus and my desktop is blackened. How can I
> resolve this?
>
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> Sudheer. S
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With Warm Regards,
Sudheer. S
http://www.binaryvibes.co.in