Comment 11 for bug 162448

It's worth pointing out that this is/was a *kernel* bug not a XFCE/Thunar bug as it is the kernel responsible for how /proc behaves (and I'm seeing exactly the same issue on a headless RHEL5 IBM TSM backup server at work presently, which was how I stumbled across this report).

The "fix" that Xfce applied was to not monitor /proc which is completely unrelated to the original bug reporters problem and should not have closed this bug.