gnome-panel / desktop icons doesn't appear on startup

Bug #121989 reported by César
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Hello,

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, with Gnome and Beryl.

Sometimes (I can't figure out when or why) the gnome panels won't appear (only my desktop appears). At other times, it's the desktop icons that won't appear (even if I drop some icon on the desktop it won't work). Once both problems appeared at the same time (The only thing on screen was my wallpaper, but if I opened some program with Alt+F2 it would run normally)

This problem occurs only sometimes in the startup, so when I change something I have no idea if it worked or not. Tried removing some things that run in startup (only thing I had added was Beryl), but the problem still happened.

If I open the ~/Desktop folder with nautilus everything looks ok.
If I use the ps -aux command, gnome-panel and nautilus appear to be running.

If I kill the process (gnome-panel or nautilus, depending on what's not working) it appears and everything goes back to normal...

It seems relate to Bug #12463, but it's not quite the same...

Is it happening to anybody else?

Thanks in advance

César (csrgamboa)
description: updated
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Does it happen when you don't use beryl?

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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César (csrgamboa) wrote :

It happened once with Beryl-Manager on but not running Beryl as my window manager (The day before I had right-clicked on the Beryl icon and selected Metacity as window manager).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

does it happen without using beryl-manager and just the standard GNOME?

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César (csrgamboa) wrote :

I disabled Beryl yesterday. So far it hasn't happened.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

closing then, feel free to reopen if that happen again without using it

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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