[21:05] <Mooncairn> Has anyone had Nautilus go out to lunch and gnome-shell absolutely spamming /var/syslog because of it?
[21:10] <Mooncairn> */var/log/syslog - I know where all of the system log files are, I swear! ;-)
[21:11] <cmaloney> heh
[21:11] <cmaloney> Depends on where it's pointed to
[21:11] <cmaloney> but yeah, sometimes GNOME can be a little ... chatty.
[21:12] <Mooncairn> My current syslog is up to 50M.
[21:12] <cmaloney> damn
[21:13] <cmaloney> have you tried stopping / restarting nautilus?
[21:13] <Mooncairn> Probably most of it having to do with gnome-shall being unable to find a non-zombified nautilus.
[21:13] <Mooncairn> Yea, it just goes back out to lunch after a bit.
[21:13] <Mooncairn> Sometimes a simple kill will bring it down, other times kill -9 is needed.
[21:14] <Mooncairn> It started doing that on Dec 28. I'm not sure what the potential trigger may have been.
[21:17] <Mooncairn> I didn't look at everything today, but when I gave up scrolling through today's logs, it looks like it had been borked and syslog had been getting spammed for hours.
[21:32] <Mooncairn> Just put in a cron job to kill nautilus every 5 minutes. *sigh*
[21:43] <Mooncairn> Okay, I'm starting to think GNOME is broken. After killing nautilus, clicking on it in the Dock doesn't restart it.
[21:43] <Mooncairn> ... but right-clicking a desktop icon and selected Properties will.
[22:35] <Mooncairn> Oh, this is interesting. The Nautilus problems began almost immediately after I had upgraded my Nvidia drivers and rebooted the system.
[23:02] <cmaloney> Ugh
[23:02] <cmaloney> This is part of the reason that I got rid of all of my NVidia stuff
[23:19] <Mooncairn> I'd misread the logs. There was a 2.5 hour gap between upgrading the drivers and the first problem with Nautilus.
[23:19] <Mooncairn> The immediate event after which trouble started was when my system woke from sleep.
[23:20] <Mooncairn> Still not encouraging as that could suggest hardware trouble.
[23:22] <Mooncairn> But yeah, the next video card that I buy will probably be AMD.
[23:31] <cmaloney> sleep might be your issue as well
[23:31] <cmaloney> i don't touch it at all
[23:40] <Mooncairn> What would you recommend as an alternative to leaving it up 24/7?
[23:41] <cmaloney> getting a ssd and booting it up each time
[23:41] <cmaloney> That's what I do with my laptop
[23:49] <Mooncairn> Alright, disabled sleep. Will shut down at night or for long daytime intervals that I'll be afk.
[23:49] <Mooncairn> Still need to clean up the nautilus mess. Might explore resetting its data to default.
[23:56] <Mooncairn> Wow... Nautilus just disappeared as I was in its Preferences dialog.
[23:57]  * Mooncairn smacks forehead.
[23:57] <Mooncairn> D'oh, the cron job is doing what I told it to do. Nevermind.
[23:57] <Mooncairn> So, cron job's not a solution.