Gnome Bug(let)

[Andrew Farris]

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> What would cause a Gnome logon to start, without any icons shown on the desktop and with the desktop (via command line) showing all the files that would appear.
> 
> This would happen once every 5 to 10 logons.
> 
> Relogging causes correct action.

Nautilus hanging or failing to start for a variety of reasons.  Running 'killall 
nautilus', or better 'kill -SIGHUP <pid-of-nautilus>' with the right pid should 
fire it back up without logout.  If its happening that often it could be 
something noticeable, like selinux denials, dbus not starting, gnome-vfs maybe. 
  Look in ~/.xsession-errors for any clues there.

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