Arch Linux

Heikete

Member

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 42

Nemo freezes on showing a directory content [SOLVED]

I installed cinnamon with nemo. I had been using pekwm for a couple of years.
The problem is that nemo doesn't work correctly.
I don't have icons on my Desktop (right click menu appears though) and
i can't browse directories when opened by nemo.

For example when I click on home it shows 'wait' icon and freezes for infinite time.

I launch the WM by running startx.
xinit:

....
export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
export XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx

rxvtd -qo
conky &
fcitx
exec cinnamon-session --debug

The only lines in journal are:

 cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus interface=org.freedesktop.DBus method=NameOwnerChanged
...
cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmManager: Uninhibit 935100290
sie 27 14:20:48 NEO cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmManager: removing inhibitor firefox 0 reason 'screen' 8 connection :1.7
sie 27 14:20:48 NEO cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmStore: Unreffing object: 0x11d5340
sie 27 14:20:48 NEO cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmManager: Inhibitor removed: /org/gnome/SessionManager/Inhibitor5
sie 27 14:20:48 NEO cinnamon-session[19232]: DEBUG(+): CsmDBusClient: obj_path=/org/gnome/SessionManager interface=org.gnome.SessionManager method=IsInhibited

I tried to launch nemo from console but without any params it exits silently.
Run as nemo -c it freezes like this:

[przemb:~]$ nemo --check
running nemo_self_check_file_utilities
running nemo_self_check_file_operations
running nemo_self_check_directory

How can I debug nemo?

Last edited by Heikete (2015-10-09 14:02:18)

Heikete

Member

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 42

Re: Nemo freezes on showing a directory content [SOLVED]

I got icons on the desktop. Long time ago I set path to Desktop to be my home directory in
.config/user-dirs.dirs So after I changed the desktop variable to point to:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

I have clickable desktop icons.

However, this doesn't solve the main issue. Nemo still freezes when I try to browse my home
directory.

Any ideas?

Heikete

Member

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 42

Re: Nemo freezes on showing a directory content [SOLVED]

The cause was malfunction of the 'glib2-patched-thumbnailer' package.
Replace from the official repo solved the case.