On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:59:05 -0500, Andrew Choens <achoens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 08:24 -0800, Timothy Payne wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 14:08 +0100, Bertrand wrote: > > > Le vendredi 17 décembre 2004 à 23:17 -0500, Andrew Choens a écrit : > > > > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:46 +0100, Bertrand wrote: > > > > > I have the same problem as previously reported by Dave (see here). > > > > > Unfortunately my desktop is not turning back 80% of the time like > > > > > Dave's. By 80% I mean that, from time to time, when I restart the > > > > > computer, I get the desktop back but most of the time nothing. By > > > > > nothing I mean my panel, etc, seem to be in place but I don't see My > > > > > computer, trash, etc. icons and I have no wallpaper. Nautilus does not > > > > > launch if i try to. I have not been able to see any error messages. > > > > > > > > > > I am running FC3 standard with all the up2date applied and no SELinux. > > > > > This is a clean scratch FC3 install. During 2 weeks i did not have > > > > > that problem. It appeared a couple of days ago and I have been unable > > > > > to find a solution. > > > > > > > > > > Bertrand > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > I have seen nautilus behave like this when it is started without some of > > > > the GNOME services being started. GNOME 2.6 introduced some background > > > > stuff that had to be working for some GNOME apps to find their themes. > > > > Can you make everything behave if you force a change in the theme from > > > > the theme manager? > > > > > > > > Or, if there's nothing there that you are 100% attached to, try > > > > deleting .gnome and .gnome2 to see if it was just some silly config file > > > > somewhere. > > > > > > > > just some ideas. I have NO idea if any of them are worth anything. > > > > --andy > > > > > > > > > > I have tried your idea: changing themes, deleting .gnome, .gnome2 > > > and .gnome2_private. I've also tried to delete .gconf and .nautilus > > > But the problem is still there. > > > I really don't know what to do. Anyone has an idea ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It happens to me also, but if I log out and back in the icons appear. > > It's as if it says "Oh sorry, forgot about the icons" :-) > > > > Could it be a timing thing? Above someone mentioned other processes > > running in the background, if they are not done by the time the desktop > > is to come up it won't load properly. - Wild guess. Is this a bug? > > > > Tim... > > > > -- > > _ > > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > > - against HTML email X > > / \ > > > > When this happens, go to a commandline and run top. I would like to > know if you have the following services/daemons running. > > gnome-session > gnome-settings-daemon > mapping-daemon > pam-panel-icon > > I'm curious to see if you have all of these running. I looked at what > processes I'm running, and these are all here and might have something > to do with your problem. All of these should be run as your user, in my > case, achoens, NOT as root. So, you only need to look at your > processes. > > --andy I have such like that before and I fixed. It just use the root acount and delete the files begin with "." excepted the .profile and the system would copy back to default. Ringo
