Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56406
Desktop Icon Disappear when clicked on
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686) Description of problem: Upgraded from Redhat 7.1 and I'm using Gnome + Nautilus. When I left or right click on a desktop icon, the icon disappears (when right-clicking, the right-click menu does appear). In order to make the desktop icons reappear, I must run nautilus, choose preferences (advanced preferences) and uncheck and recheck the "Use Nautilus to draw Desktop option" and click "OK". This makes the icons reappear, but they will still disappear when clicked upon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-1.0.4-43 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. left or right-click a desktop icon, it will disappear 2.Run "Start Here" 3. Choose Advanced Preferences 4. Open preferences 5. uncheck and recheck the "Use Nautilus to draw Desktop option" 6. click "OK" 7.. the desktop Icons will re-appear 8. clicking on a desktop icon will STILL make it disappear Actual Results: Desktop Icons disappear Expected Results: Desktop Icons should NOT diappear. Additional info: Upgraded from Redhat 7.1 and I'm using Gnome + Nautilus.
Alex do you remember this bug happening before? What was it?
Something about fam. If i don't misremember completely just upgrading fam should fix it.
Can you try getting the latest FAM and see if that fixes it? If the latest official FAM update doesn't work maybe try the one at ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide?
I upgraded fam using the fam rpm from ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide I then restarted xinetd and logged out and logged back in. That resolved the problem. All is well. Thank you all!
OK, will be fixed in next release then.
Note: I am edgester@yahoo.com, I just switch email addresses. The problem resurfaced a day later, but restarting xinetd fixed it. I'll post anymore bug as I find them
The updated FAm seems to work well. The second instance of the desktop icons is tied to the fact that my home directory is in AFS. Setting look permissions for system:anyuser on my home dir and read & look permissions for system:anyuser on my .gnome-desktop directory seems to fix everything. now I just have to be careful what file I put on my desktop.