On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Jim Cornette wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (i apologize for coming late to the party, but i'm just getting > > around to test installing f9-alpha so i might need a few dumb > > questions to catch up.) > > > > from a fresh install yesterday (and selecting pretty much all the > > defaults as a start), when the system came back up, i logged in as > > "guest" but got only a blank desktop. totally blank. > > > > i checked bugzilla (i'm assuming fedora "rawhide" version) and > > searched on "blank desktop" but nothing came up. has this been BZed? > > what would have been a better search criteria? thanks. > > > > rday > > -- > > Blank as in no Icons, panels, menus or blank as in no illumination? > Gnome came up once with just the background but came up correctly > ever since. sorry, that was a particularly uninformative description, wasn't it? just the background, but no icons, panels, menus, etc. just for fun, i re-installed from scratch, logged in again as "guest", same thing. but you're saying that's what you got only once and it worked fine from then on? i obviously can't log out the normal way since there are no icons, so i popped over to a VC, init 3, init 5 ... nope, so let's go back to the VC and reboot ... nope, no change. rday p.s. this is installing f9a x86_64 on an AMD-equipped gateway laptop, if that's relevant. ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list