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Jedimind

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Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 24

Gnome system monitor

I use (or used) gnome-system-monitor since I found it superior to others like htop, top, atop and others. However now I have one problem ... X crashed while gnome-system-monitor was running and now I can't get it to start. If I try via gmrun nothing happens and from a terminal it just sits there and does nothing.

I can't find a man page or anything on how to resolve it. If I reinstall gnome-system-monitor nothing changes, it's still the same. Any idea on how I can get it to run again?

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Gnome system monitor

$ su
# killall -9 gnome-system-monitor
# exit
$ gnome-system-monitor

What is the result of that please?

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Jedimind

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Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome system monitor

No processes killed, gnome-system-monitor isn't running. The result is:

"gnome-system-monitor: no processes killed"

And it isn't running, "ps -e | grep gnome" gives:

4650 ? 00:01:11 gnomebaker (burning a dvd)
11871 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemon

So it's not running.

abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: Gnome system monitor

try reinstalling it.

Jedimind

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Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome system monitor

try reinstalling it.

Already tried. Nothing changes.

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Gnome system monitor

Will it also not run as root, or just as user?

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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Gnome system monitor

have you tried running xosview?  I find that to be a great lightweight system monitor.  If I need to see what individual processes are doing (rarely) I just fire up top.

Jedimind

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Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome system monitor

Will it also not run as root, or just as user?

As root it runs. But it displays this before it starts:

"I/O warning: failed to load external entity "/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml"". There isn't even a folder named gnome-about in /usr/share ...

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Gnome system monitor

If it will run as root then I would try renaming your user's .gnome* and/or .gconf* folders then re-login and see if it will work under a default config environment. If it will then you at least know where the problem resides.

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Jedimind

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Registered: 2008-02-15

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome system monitor

I tried that but still didn't work. But I found xfce4-taskmanager, it isn't as good as gnome-system-monitor but at least it works. Silly program that stops working just because that X crashed. I don't think this will happen to xfce4-taskmanager, generally I've found xfce4-programs to work better than the gnome ones ... but sure, it might not generally be true. But my experience