Desktop not loading

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 12:41 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Peter Baily <peter.baily at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
> > I do not know whether my problem is related to the
> > long running thread
> > of correspondence about desktop problems.   If I
> > have missed something,
> > my apologies.
> > 
> > Regularly - and again today- when I start Ubuntu the
> > desktop (one of my
> > photos with media icons superimposed) does not load.
> >   The bars top and
> > bottom with their icons load normally leaving a
> > black screen.
> > To correct this I have to reboot probably twice and
> > some times three
> > times - this morning two reboots.
> > The loader must be skipping an instruction
> > intermittently.   Please, can
> > anyone offer a cure?   I would hope not to be
> > wasting time like this in
> > future.
> > 
> > "Peteralchemist"
> > 
> If your not using Hardy KDE4.1 your issue is probably
> not related to the long running thread.
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 

do you have the compisiting effects turned on? try turning them off