Desktop wont restart

[Darryl LeCount]

On Tue, March 13, 2007 3:55 pm, Wade Smart wrote:
> 03132007 0951 GMT-6 DST
>
> Day before last Evolution hung and I couldnt get it to quit and my
> entire system just stalled. Then the power went out. When I finally got
> everything back up, it took about five minutes for the desktop to come
> up.
>
> I had a similar problem this morning. I loaded some songs on to my mp3
> and the browser window unexpectedly crashed. The desktop went away -
> none of my apps were responding. I finally got them all closed and I
> rebooted.
>
> It took 15 minutes for the desktop background to show up after reboot.
> The desktop icons are still missing, though when I go into File Browser
> and into Desktop I can still see everything is there.
>
> What can I do about this?
>
> wade
>

Hi Wade,

I recently had this problem and traced it back to a defective hard drive.
It may be worth your while booting using your LiveCD and running fsck.ext3
on your hard drive to see what wonders come up.

-- D