program launcher going wild

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 29 June 2012 13:20:12 Gene Heskett did opine:

> On Friday 29 June 2012 04:23:59 Colin Law did opine:
> > On 29 June 2012 08:40, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > > 
> > > For the 2nd time I am going to have to reboot.
> > > 
> > > If I have a copy of firefox running, a click on an html link in an
> > > email will hand the request off to firefox just fine.
> > > 
> > > But if firefox is not running, then whatever is in charge of
> > > handling such link clicks tries to start at leasy 100 copies of
> > > konqueror, so I wind up with a machine whose lower info bar has
> > > buttons from processes trying to run lined up to as little as 1/8"
> > > wide, which it will do for 2-3 minutes and then it will try to kill
> > > them all, which it will do for perhaps 5 seconds, but will
> > > eventually start fireing of another 100 or so copies, none of which
> > > ever actually open a screen.
> > 
> > You have not said which version of Ubuntu you are running, but
> > assuming it is 12.04 then in System Settings > Details > Default
> > Applications make sure you have Firefox as the default web app.
> > 
> > Colin
> 
> Sorry, 10.04-4 32 bit on a 64 bit box.  This is so all my boxes are
> running the same install, and 2 of the other boxes are frozen on 10.04
> LTS because that is the kernel 2.6.32-122-rtai we have with rtai
> support for realtime machine (lathes, milling machines etc) control.
> 
> That option doesn't seem to be in the list of pulldowns, so I've no clue
> where to adjust that on 10.04-4.  System->Preferred Applications however
> is set for firefox.  I think that is the same thing.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

A more kerosene on the fire PS:

Its done that 4 more times since I posted the above, and each time I 
reboot, things change.  Once I even got the default users gui setup which I 
was unable to change.  No keyboard response to even open a terminal screen.

When I reboot, long before the login screen appears, I get an error 
advisory popup, center screen, that says it "Could not update 
/var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority"

If I sit and wait long enough I will finally get the big Xservers X mouse 
pointer so I can click on the close button.  Eventually.

The instant I close that, it is replaced by another error window advising 
me that "There is a problem with the config server - 
(/var/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check exited with status 256)

But if I re-execute that file right now, it gives a null return ANAICT.

Also, while on this reboot I did get some (not all, only that set I 
normally keep in workspace 5 of 10) of my terminal screens restored, it 
took several minutes after the boot was (theoretically) completed before 
those screens had a cursor, so I was either typing blind, or searching thru 
the shell cli history to find the command I normally run in that 
terminal/tab and re-execute it.

FWIW, memtest86 was run a full cycle earlier this morning, no errors.

This is turning into a right PIMA folks, what can I do?

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene
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