gnome-applets: The trash applet sometimes prevents Ubuntu GNOME desktop from loading

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:05:20 -0500, George Talusan <george at elitedudz.com> wrote:
> Package: gnome-applets
> Version: 2.9.2-0ubuntu4
> Severity: important
> 
> Sometimes, it's unexplainable, when Ubuntu is logging into my GNOME
> desktop the login procedure will freeze and I get a brown screen with a
> partially loaded desktop.  The panels appear but their contents are empty.
> 
> I believe this issue is reported as a "stumper" problem on the
> ubuntuforums.
> 
> Killing the trash applet lets the desktop finish initializing.

Hoary did this to me once last night.   It happened after the reboot
after I did a synaptic upgrade of the system, so I thought  maybe it
was an updated  package that was bad; but after another reboot the
problem went away.

The problem I had is that I couldn't kill the trash applet.  When I
went into console mode, I discovered that I couldn't type my username;
the only keys that seemed to work in the console was ctrl-alt-del that
allowed me to do a clean reboot.