Hi - I’ve been running EOS with Cinnamon on my laptop for about 6 months. Lately, it’s developed an annoying random issue where Nemo stops responding. When I try to start it from the terminal, I get $ nemo
Could not register nemo as a remote: Timeout was reached
I check the log with journalctl --since “XX minutes ago”, but don’t see anything out of the ordinary.
However, about 5 min. later, a Nemo window pops up on my screen and works normally.
I’ve tried:
logging out of my session and back in with $sudo systemctl restart lightdm
but Nemo is still unresponsive
restarting x with $ sudo pkill x
but Nemo is still unresponsive
If I change to being the super user, Nemo works fine.
I’ve only ever seen that with (auto-)mounted remote NAS volumes
when an already mounted volume “went away” (disconnected for whatever reason)
when the NAS connection was on a slow/flakey connection (WiFi, low speed, VPN with wrong MTU, etc.)
when the NAS volumes holds many folders & files (Nemo takes forever, apparently recursively checking all to find the total size)
on badly configured NFS shares (NFS defaults to 10000 retries, multiplied by however many retries the file manager uses internally; I typically set retry=1)
I can only guess (not using all of these, only Nextcloud and TrueNAS over NFS) but it looks like the GNOME Virtual File System Daemon gvfsd reports connection problems. This may (or may not) be caused by the wlan0 CCPM rekeying (IPv6 sometimes change addresses), or just be some bug in Pcloud or Koofr.
I’d suggest disabling both, then check if it still happens, then turn on only one of them (testing both, of course), and check again.
If you find anything reproducible, you could report it to their issue trackers.
I’ve deactivated pCloud and Koofr cloud storage, and paused my backup service Duplicati. However, I just had another incident of Nemo not responding. The logs are as follows:
$ journalctl --since “40 minutes ago”
Jun 29 10:45:44 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:45:44 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:46:36 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:46:36 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:46 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:47:46 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:50:03 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:50:03 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:52:20 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:52:20 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:53:00 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:53:00 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:53:59 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:53:59 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:54:58 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:54:58 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:44 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:55:44 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:56:39 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:56:39 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:57:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:57:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:04 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:04 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:06 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:19 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:19 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:21 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:21 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:21 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 10:59:21 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:00:23 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:00:23 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:01:32 lenovo-y systemd-timesyncd[481]: Contacted time server 172.235.32.243:123 (0.arch.pool.ntp.org).
Jun 29 11:01:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:01:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:01:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Successfully made thread 249279 of process 248215 owned by ‘1000’ RT at priority 10.
Jun 29 11:01:42 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:02:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:02:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:02:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:02:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:03:19 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:03:19 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:03:43 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:03:43 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:14 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:14 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:17 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:17 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:04:25 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:05:47 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:05:47 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:05:49 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:05:49 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:05:49 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Successfully made thread 250588 of process 4949 owned by ‘1000’ RT at priority 10.
Jun 29 11:05:49 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:07:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:07:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:07:57 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:07:57 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:10:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:10:27 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:11:57 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:11:57 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:12:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:12:28 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:13:36 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:13:36 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:14:29 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:14:29 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:15:48 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:15:48 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:16:29 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:16:29 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:08 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:16 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:18:16 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:19:24 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jun 29 11:19:24 lenovo-y rtkit-daemon[1141]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
I still don’t know the reason why this happens, but I’ve discovered the cause. The issue randomly occurs when I have my cell phone mounted by it being plugged into the USB C port. When the issue happens, unplugging the phone resolves the issue immediately.