blank desktop after fresh install

[Andrew Farris]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

Did you try this with a normal user yet or just guest?  Several people have 
mentioned they had to just 'useradd' from a terminal.  I don't have guest even 
shown on my machines now and not sure what changed; the guest login never 
succeeded anyway.

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