[luau] Lost my Desktop

Hershberger, Robert T Mr (CPF N63RTH) HershbRT at cpf.navy.mil
Tue Mar 12 10:41:05 PST 2002


  I use Gnome at home, and have suffered this on several occasions.  It
doesn't matter whether I log out with the "Save this Session" check box,
checked or unchecked.  At the next log in the Gnome splash screen comes up
and the progression icons along the bottom edge appear, when it gets to the
Panel, & Desktop Icons they appear several times.  After which I get a blue
screen for my desktop.
  What I have done to alleviate this is: Shut X down <ctrl><alt><backspace>
and then opened a new console, log in (I use root, that way I don't have
permission conflicts) and type 

		rm -f -r /tmp/orbit-*		(on my systems at home Gnome
creates a folder in /tmp called ../orbit-~, with the 
							 user name of the
logged in user at '~'.  But I don't know why)

  log out and switch back to the GUI console, and proceed with log in and
Gnome fun! (I guess I could put the command in a batch file that ran SUID
root and run it as a shut down script, but then I'd have to learn how to
make a batch file run SUID)
  Now I haven't noticed any problems when doing this, the desktop apparently
returns without determental effects, nor have I lost any files I was working
with.  But since I have to work on Windoze machines at work I spend most of
my time in MS Hell, so I might be missing things that are going on in the
Linux Domain.

  If someone sees where I've missed something please jump in.  Thanks...

Robert Hershberger




-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 07:46 AM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: Re: [luau] Lost my Desktop


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Strode" <halfline at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] Lost my Desktop


> > To all,
> >
> > I had my desktop a couple days ago then it disappeared... I don't know
> > what happened and I have been going through the system to figure it
> > out...I'm running on Mandrake 8.1 and using "Gnome"..  (I'm having
> > more fun using this than KDE)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ralph Miranda (DragonHawk)
>
> Nautilus may have crashed.  When that happens if you save your session
> on logout, it won't come back.  To get it back,
> goto "Start Here" or just run "nautilus & disown & exit" at a shell.

Yeah, I've noticed that happening to Nautilus myself.  I eventually figured
out that wiping out the ~/.gnome/session file fixes this.  I hope they get
this bug fixed.  Rather annoying when you have dozens of user accounts and
the only option is to kill their session file upon every login.

Anyone know a way of removing that checkbox in the logout menu asking them
if they want to save their current session?  That tends to cause problems
for me too.

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