User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061228 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Build Identifier: I am running FreeBSD 6.2 Release, and I installed xfce4.4 from the ports. When I start xfce two windows appear on the desktop: a tooltip window which contains nothing (I am assuming tips were not installed, but this is not a big deal), and a Thunar window, which however stays blank forever. If I check the processes with top, I can see that Thunar is always in state "kserel" (I cannot even kill the process!). My home directory is an NFS mounted share. Does this possibly have something to do with it? thanks for any help Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start xfce 2. 3. Actual Results: Thunar hangs and its windows stays blank Expected Results: Thunar should have shown the filesystem structure (home directory by default?)
Try strace/ktrace to see where it hangs.
(In reply to comment #1) > Try strace/ktrace to see where it hangs. > Thanks for the reply. I tried to do "ktrace Thunar", but unfortunately the ktrace.out file is a binary one and I wouldn't know how to decode it....
man ktrace "...use kdump(1) to decode it."
(In reply to comment #3) > man ktrace > > "...use kdump(1) to decode it." > Did that, but unfortunately this is way beyond my competence. Would it be helpful to post the ktrace.out or its dumped version? thanks and congratulations for the great desktop!
Attach the dump.
Created attachment 974 dump of ktrace
Created attachment 975 gzipped ktrace dump
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=975) [details] > gzipped ktrace dump > I found out the culprit. I was using file locking over NFS. I removed it and now Thunar works fine.