Serious operating system problems

[Jacob72]

Hello,

I am having serious problems with my operating system, Xubuntu 12.04. Software programs/folders do not open properly, they do not expand (firefox crashes when I try to make window full size), I can not navigate through open applications using tab, applications do not respond. Right click on the mouse brings up the options box but it does not stay visible when I try to select an option ...

Task Manager shows I am only using %15 memory and 7% CPU and I have plenty of HD space, I have never experienced anything like this before running X/Ubuntu.

I recently installed xubuntu desktop environment all was running fine for a week or so. I have downloaded a website via ftp for uploading on to a new server - virus?

Thanks for any help

Probable an absentminded user fault - still loving Ubuntu

[Toz]

Sounds like you might have a corrupted session. Try logging out, going to your first console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), logging in to the text console and running these commands:

cd ~/.cache
rm -rf sessions

...then go back to your gui console (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and log back in.

These commands will clear the existing saved sessions state and hopefully fix your problems. If not, please post back the contents of ~/.xsession-errors:

pastebinit ~/.xsessions-errors

...and post back the lin kthat is generated.

[Jacob72]

Hello Toz,

Thanks once again, that seemed to clear everything up

Would be interested to know what caused the corrupted sessions?

This command

pastebinit ~/.xsessions-errors

Only produced this?
Unable to read from: /home/jacob/.xsessions-errors

Jacob

[Toz]

Unable to read from: /home/jacob/.xsessions-errors

Does the file exist (it should):

ls -l ~/.xsession-errors

[Jacob72]

Does the file exist (it should):

ls -l ~/.xsession-errors

Yes, that code command produced; /home/jacob/.xsessions-errors

I logged in just now and I was back to the corrupted sessions state? I am OK for now as I followed the steps as before, the last command still produces this:

jacob@jacob-desktop:~$ pastebinit ~/.xsessions-errors
Unable to read from: /home/jacob/.xsessions-errors

[Toz]

Can you view the file using leafpad?

leafpad ~/.xsession-errors

[Jacob72]

Can you view the file using leafpad?

leafpad ~/.xsession-errors

openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
xrdb: "Xft.hinting" on line 13 overrides entry on line 6
xrdb: "Xft.hintstyle" on line 14 overrides entry on line 7
xfce4-settings-helper: Another instance is already running. Leaving...

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2782): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2782): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area

(xfce4-settings-helper:2799): xfce4-settings-helper-WARNING **: Failed to get the _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS property.
WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-ZrNusf/pkcs11: No such file or directory

(xfce4-indicator-plugin:2827): libindicator-WARNING **: IndicatorObject class does not have an accessible description.

(xfce4-indicator-plugin:2827): libindicator-WARNING **: IndicatorObject class does not have an accessible description.
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
** Message: moving back from GtkStatusIcon to indicator

(xfce4-indicator-plugin:2827): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed

(xfce4-terminal:2996): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_window_type: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(xfce4-terminal:3651): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_window_type: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported input device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.

[Toz]

Make sure that you run:

pastebinit ~/.xsession-errors

...when you are logged into your GUI session.

There is nothing drastically wrong with that log file (aside from the warning messages). It would be interesting to see this log when the system is mis-behaving as initially posted.

[Jacob72]

Really sorry, I was adding an 's' to '.xsession'.

Here is the pastebin:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1357885/

[Jacob72]

It would be interesting to see this log when the system is mis-behaving as initially posted.

It happened again:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1358938/

Also something else happened that is worrying, my mysql password no longer worked, all my local sites had the data base error message, I reset the password via terminal, though when I rebooted it did not work again??

Thanks