I boot up my RedHat 6.0 and after login I often, say 1 in 7 times, will get a desktop background login missing all the icons and taskbar, showing only a mouse 'X' and a RedHat logo on the screen. I then have to restart the session. What failed?
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You might try the new GNOME RPMs from 6.1, they potentially solve this problem.