Oddball desktop behavior
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Sun May 29 20:50:20 UTC 2016
I logged out Friday & left for the long weekend. I had been logged in
for weeks, maybe months, xfce-4.12_1, FreeBSD 9.3R-p36, pkgs upgraded
last week (w/o logging out & back in, wasn't required). I logged back in
this A.M. & have slightly wacky desktop behavior. All JPEG's, PNG's,
etc. on my desktop have the same, apparently generic thumbnail, rather
than the one specific to the individual file. I also have a process
running amok:
[wam at kabini1, ~, 3:09:50pm] 307 % ps -alf
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
1110 38532 53584 0 30 0 14520 3312 pause I v0 0:00.05 -tcsh
(tcsh)
1110 38537 38532 0 52 0 14548 2176 wait I+ v0 0:00.01
/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/startx
1110 38553 38537 0 26 0 23740 2624 wait I+ v0 0:00.00 xinit
/home/wam/.xinitrc -- /usr/local/bin/X :0 -auth /home/wam/.serverauth.38537
0 38554 38553 0 20 0 307032 84028 uwait I v0 1:05.19
/usr/local/bin/X :0 -auth /home/wam/.serverauth.38537 (Xorg)
1110 38559 38553 0 52 0 14548 2172 wait I v0 0:00.01
/bin/sh /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
1110 38565 38559 0 20 0 194552 18068 select I v0 0:01.35
xfce4-session
1110 38568 1 0 52 0 27972 2936 select I v0 0:00.00
/usr/local/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session xfce4-session
1110 38577 38565 0 20 0 182620 19596 select S v0 0:03.20 xfwm4
--display :0.0 --sm-client-id 26f798dfa-3f9e-11e4-ba85-d0509913e385
1110 38580 38565 0 52 0 231464 22960 kqread I v0 0:11.16
xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id
26f307901-3f9e-11e4-ba85-d0509913e385
1110 38583 38565 0 20 0 248552 33284 kqread I v0 0:04.69
xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id
26f308fe5-3f9e-11e4-ba85-d0509913e385
1110 38585 38565 0 41 0 204188 25772 select I v0 0:07.03
xfce4-terminal --geometry=184x51 --display :0.0
--role=xfce4-terminal-1419626305-1398613666 --show-
1110 38586 38565 0 20 0 79152 10604 select I v0 0:00.22 xterm
-xtsessionID 240b804e5-2e30-11e5-b426-d0509913e385 -sl 5000 -maximized
1110 38590 38565 0 20 0 79152 10524 select I v0 0:00.21 xterm
-xtsessionID 22262d0e2-798d-11e5-95bb-d0509913e385 -rv
1110 38591 38565 0 20 0 79152 10648 select I v0 0:00.23 xterm
-xtsessionID 2d50e5c9c-f7f0-11e4-a83d-d0509913e385 -sl 5000 -maximized
1110 38593 38565 0 20 0 79152 10544 select I v0 0:00.23 xterm
-xtsessionID 29e04983f-80a3-11e5-95bb-d0509913e385 -sl 5000 -maximized -rv
1110 38594 38580 0 20 0 177556 15772 select I v0 0:00.13
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 12582944
1110 38596 38580 0 20 0 164468 16876 select S v0 0:03.10
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/liborageclock.so 22 12582
1110 38600 38565 0 20 0 58652 4496 select S v0 0:00.77
xscreensaver -no-splash
1110 38611 38565 0 48 0 224152 20128 kqread I v0 0:00.24
zeitgeist-datahub
1110 38621 38565 0 39 19 353504 60044 uwait IN v0 55:29.55
/usr/local/libexec/tracker-extract
1110 38632 38565 0 39 19 140272 16600 kqread IN v0 0:00.28
/usr/local/libexec/tracker-miner-apps
1110 38641 38580 0 20 0 173044 16120 select S v0 0:24.20
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libcpugraph.so 16 1258295
1110 38642 38565 0 39 19 191356 30376 kqread IN v0 0:09.12
/usr/local/libexec/tracker-miner-fs
1110 38643 38580 0 20 0 173028 16048 select S v0 0:02.53
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libbsdcpufreq.so 5 125829
1110 38647 38580 0 20 0 179448 18000 select I v0 0:00.16
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 19 12582958
1110 38648 38565 0 52 19 133264 14908 kqread IN v0 0:00.14
/usr/local/libexec/tracker-miner-user-guides
1110 38649 38580 0 20 0 164468 17416 select S v0 0:03.16
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-1.0
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/liborageclock.so 18 12582
1110 38677 1 0 20 0 41352 5844 select S v0 0:02.26
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38683 1 0 20 0 41352 5276 select S v0 0:01.56
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38690 1 0 20 0 41352 4784 select S v0 0:02.07
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38696 1 0 20 0 37256 4404 select S v0 0:02.17
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38699 1 0 20 0 37256 4252 select S v0 0:02.43
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38711 1 0 20 0 37256 4252 select S v0 0:02.46
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
1110 38714 1 0 20 0 37256 4252 select S v0 0:02.37
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
PID 38621 (/usr/local/libexec/tracker-extract), child of 38565
(xfce4-session). I have no clue what the runaway process does, but I
vaguely suspect that it is related to the oddball desktop thumbnails.
This isn't (yet) a showstopper, but is irritating. Can I just kill it ?
Will it be respawned if needed ? My desktop arrangements are rather
elaborate (*many* xterms & rxvt's open), since I use this box to access
all others on my LAN, which is why I don't logout & back in very often
:-/. Any clues appreciated, any more info needed, just ask. TIA & have a
nice rest-of-the-weekend.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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