Gutsy - no panels no desktop no happiness

Glenn Tobey gletob at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 04:59:40 UTC 2007


It sounds like you may have a gnome problem did you turn the computer
off while updating or off the wrong way?Also Try starting fail safe
gnome by selecting Options at the login screen > fail safe gnome > ok
then login and see what hapens
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 20:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
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> Hello all
> 
> Running Gutsy. This morning when I booted through to the Gnome desktop,
> it had no panels, and no icons. The background eventually came up. When
> I click (right or left) on the desktop NOTHING happens. Going to a
> console and running top shows me my dual cpu being dragged to its knees
> 100% usage. There seem to be several copies of various Gnome programs
> such as gnome-appearance running. I have tried renaming the .gnome
> directories but no happinesss. 
> 
> 
> 
> - -- 
> Cheers
> 
> Frank 
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