[Shotwell] Resetting and Starting Again

[Dougie Nisbet]

On 14/09/2011 20:02, Eric Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at highmoor.co.uk 
> <mailto:dougie at highmoor.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     The Zombie process is a bit strange. I've pasted some information
>     below. As you  might expect 'kill -9' has no effect, but if I kill
>     its parent process things do not end well. I lose bits of the Menu
>     bar on the bottom of the screen.
>
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $ ps -ef | grep shotwell
>         dougie    1939  1717  5 19:17 ?        00:00:39 [shotwell]
>         <defunct>
>         dougie    2023  1862  0 19:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep
>         --colour=auto shotwell
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1939
>         UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
>         dougie    1939  1717  5 19:17 ?        00:00:39 [shotwell]
>         <defunct>
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717
>         UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
>         dougie    1717     1  0 19:14 ?        00:00:03 python
>         /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $ ps -fp1717 | fold
>         UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
>         dougie    1717     1  0 19:14 ?        00:00:03 python
>         /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMe
>         nu/mintMenu.py
>         --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_mintMenu_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=18
>         dougie at phoenix ~ $
>
>
> Does this happen if you run from the command line or just from the menu?
>

I think it's both, but I shall check.

>     I tried (unsuccessfully) to use the package manager in Linux Mint
>     10 (Julia) and hit problems that I couldn't get beyond. valac and
>     gstreamer deps IIRC. I tried using the repo on the shotwell
>     website but it installed 0.10 and I'm really keen on the
>     hierarchical tagging. I didn't pursue it because I've been meaning
>     to move to Linux Mint for Debian for some time and I have wiped my
>     PC and run LXDE. I compiled from the source tarball so I'm not
>     sure how to purge before starting over.
>
>
> I've just been told the way to do this is to run make uninstall, then 
> log out and log back in. The settings should be gone.
>

Ah well, there's the rub. It took me ages to get it to compile (problems 
with gstreamer deps mainly) and I can't for the life of me figure out 
what loose wire I finally fiddled with that caused it to compile, and 
I'm not keen on risking it! However, I'm currently installing it on my 
netbook on a clean install of LXDE, so I shall pay more attention this time.

Dougie