From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When the default color depth of the screen is set to 16 bit, as defined in /etc/xorg.conf, the following happens when a user has logged out and he (or another user) logs in again from GDM: * Nautilus hangs for a few minutes. * The desktop is therefor unusable. * No icons are shown on the desktop. * No wallpaper is shown. * The rest of Gnome is usable (one can start programs, use the taskbar and menu bar). The following didn't help: * Turning off the wallpaper. The following helped: * Setting the color depth to 24 bit (in xorg.conf). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set color default depth of the screen to 16 bit in /etc/xorg.conf 2. Log in with GDM. 3. Log out. 4. Log in again (doesn't have to be the same user). Actual Results: * Nautilus hangs for a few minutes. * The desktop is therefor unusable. * No icons are shown on the desktop. * No wallpaper is shown. * The rest of Gnome is usable (one can start programs, use the taskbar and menu bar). Additional info: Graphics driver = MGA Videocard = Matrox Millenium II AGP 4MB
Can you try getting a backtrace from nautilus when this happens? See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces for information on how to get backtraces.
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Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.