what happened to splash?

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Fri Nov 4 13:52:09 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:09 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> After recent updates on my test system when I am starting a gnome
> session on a root account a Fedora splash gets stuck in the middle
> of my screen.  It prints at the bottom "Nautilus" and it sits there
> until it will get a mouse click.  Does not seem to time out ever.
> 
> If I am starting on non-root accounts then nothing of that sort
> happens.  It seems that a printer icon shows up next after Nautilus
> on a splash bar but this, and disappearing splash, happen so fast
> that I have troubles to be sure of that. :-)
> 
> One of differences is that RHN icon stopped showinig up on a panel,
> so maybe this is that as I was _not_ starting up rhn_applet for
> non-roots.  The trouble is that I did not figure out how to remove
> from a panel something which is not there :-) so I have troubles
> testing hypothesis that these two things are connected.  Looking
> in various ~/.gnome* directories did not make me any wiser.
> 
> Anybody with ideas?
> 
>    Michal
> 

I'm seeing this on a non-root account too.

tjb
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