From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: In root session sometimes icons disappears from the tool-bar and from desktop (expecially the newer created). Once time I must to re-configure the tool-bar and re-add the icons like menus, icons, etcc.. Another bug related is this: sometimes I try to create a start-icon and after this don't appear in the desktop but only I re-boot the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.I don't know 2. 3. Additional info:
I have observed something like this too. Let me add some details. I am running kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp but the same thing has happened on previous kernels. Gnome is gnome-desktop-2.10.0-5, with Simple theme. 1. No idea what triggers this. It only happens from time to time (typically 3 to 6 weeks between occurrences). Once it gets in this state it stays that way till reboot. I have not been able to correlate the occurrence of this problem with any updates. For instance, it happened again this morning, and the only updates applied since previous login were anacron-2.3-36.FC4 and dia-0.94-13.fc4, which don't look relevant. The messages log does not show any error messages from gdm. 2. Symptoms are (a) upon login, no desktop icons appear, and desktop background which was a custom image is replaced by default dark blue background. The taskbar with its taskbar icons does appear, and the taskbar applets and menu items behave normally. (b) upon logout, there is a long pause before exiting the desktop session, typically about a minute. (May be related to bug 171779.) 3. I have tried (a) logging out and logging in again; (b) killing gdm and letting it respawn; (c) changing to runlevel 3 and then back to runlevel 5; (d) deleting /tmp/$USER-orbit directory prior to logging in. Nothing works. The only cure found so far is a reboot, which reliably returns gnome desktop to normal behavior for the next few weeks.
P.S. This happens in user session (e.g. moniot). Haven't tried it as root.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I have not seen this problem since I upgraded to FC5 (and now FC6).
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