On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:52:20 +0000, Simon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I came onto the computer this morning I found that gnome-panel was > taking 99% cpu for no apparent reason. I rebooted and the system went > down and back up successfully. When I log in though, everything loads > apart from the desktop. It stays the default blue colour instead of > loading my background image, no icons are displayed, and I cant interact > with it by right clicking (nothing happens). Im a bit stumped really as > I cant find any error messages anywhere. > The previous poster has the right idea btw. Which is unfortunate because you lose all your settings. You should really not have to reboot to resolve this. I have had this happen to me occasionally, once a year or so since I have been using gnome for like 5 years on average. It is usually resolved by logging out (not rebooting) and then doing the CTRL+ALT+F6 for a terminal login. Then you do a ps -ef | grep <username> Whack all the gnome related processes still running under your name. Then you can log back in and everything should be fine.
