FC3: Gnome desktop seems to have disappeared

[Andrew Choens]

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
> > > > 
> > > > 
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> > > 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...
> 
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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