Desktop wont restart

[Wade Smart]

03132007 1102 GMT-6 DST

I typed nautilus in "Run Application" and it came up. Though its
supposed to start when the pc boots up. 

Ill keep watch though. Thanks for the hard drive tip. 
I hope its not that. Its barely a year old.

wade


On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:57 +0100, Darryl LeCount wrote:
> 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
>