blank desktop after fresh install

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   (i apologize for coming late to the party, but i'm just getting
> > around to test installing f9-alpha so i might need a few dumb
> > questions to catch up.)
> >
> >   from a fresh install yesterday (and selecting pretty much all the
> > defaults as a start), when the system came back up, i logged in as
> > "guest" but got only a blank desktop.  totally blank.
> >
> >   i checked bugzilla (i'm assuming fedora "rawhide" version) and
> > searched on "blank desktop" but nothing came up.  has this been BZed?
> > what would have been a better search criteria?  thanks.
> >
> > rday
> > --
>
> Blank as in no Icons, panels, menus or blank as in no illumination?
> Gnome came up once with just the background but came up correctly
> ever since.

sorry, that was a particularly uninformative description, wasn't it?
just the background, but no icons, panels, menus, etc.  just for fun,
i re-installed from scratch, logged in again as "guest", same thing.
but you're saying that's what you got only once and it worked fine
from then on?

i obviously can't log out the normal way since there are no icons, so
i popped over to a VC, init 3, init 5 ... nope, so let's go back to
the VC and reboot ... nope, no change.

rday

p.s.  this is installing f9a x86_64 on an AMD-equipped gateway laptop,
if that's relevant.

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