Traxter> I'd like to add my two cents as I got this problem today
Traxter> and was able to resolve it.
Traxter> I followed the advice above to uninstall the tracker tool
Traxter> but this itself didn't get rid of the problem. I therefore
Traxter> restarted dbus with "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart" and
Traxter> after a couple of seconds when I got my desktop back the
Traxter> problem was gone.
That was one of the things people recommended long ago, but it did not
work for me. Amazing how a bug that makes a system almost unusable is
still around after so long.
Traxter> I'd like to add my two cents as I got this problem today
Traxter> and was able to resolve it.
Traxter> I followed the advice above to uninstall the tracker tool
Traxter> but this itself didn't get rid of the problem. I therefore
Traxter> restarted dbus with "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart" and
Traxter> after a couple of seconds when I got my desktop back the
Traxter> problem was gone.
That was one of the things people recommended long ago, but it did not
work for me. Amazing how a bug that makes a system almost unusable is
still around after so long.