On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:58 -0500, Michael Velez wrote:

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On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:18, Michael Velez wrote:

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I guess I corrupted the desktop when I rebooted through VNC

but I don't know

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how to get it back.

Is there a way of retrieving this without having to delete

this user and

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creating a new one?

Guessing sucks. Always try to figure out what's going on! Leaving this unknown can only lead to trouble down the road - it's always better to spend some time and find out whassup. You'll find out something bad has happened, or you'll learn how to better identify if something bad is happening later. Either way, you're ahead!

Different WM have different locations for Desktop. KDE's desktop is usually in ~/Desktop. Check out that folder.

If you really think corruption is in order, you might want to check your entire f/s with e2fsck:

# shutdown -Fr now;

Otherwise, you might have to recover from backups. (you DO have backups, right?)

Actually, when I meant I corrupted the desktop, I didn't mean at a disk level. I doubt e2fsck will fix this (although I'll run it anyway, you never know). The reboot was proper; however, it was done through VNC which seems to have caused a different chain of events when closing the gnome-session. This is what I'm trying to figure out.

As I mentioned in my previous e-mail all my *.desktop files are in my ~/Desktop directory. They just do not appear on the desktop when I open my gnome session. The session starts everything else (start menus, taskbar, startup applications - i.e. xclock) it's just my desktop that has become one solid color (dark blue) with no icons. I can log in fine with other userid's and receive a good desktop, so this really has something to do with my user profile.

At this point, I'm trying to figure out how a reboot through VNC could have made my gnome-session close improperly.

I don't know enough about gnome-sessions to figure this out myself. Is there a file in the gnome profile that has desktop information (other than ~/Desktop)?

I've had to use VNC a lot lately so I have seen this once before. I couldn't figure it out and I just deleted the user, created a new one, and re-installed user files from backup (which I have a wazoo of; I have more automated backup than a home environment actually needs). My next e2fsck after that did not mention a corruption so it really has to be something in my profile files.

---- ~/Desktop is the objects on your desktop (files / folders / etc.)

your settings are typically stored in ~/.gnome or ~/.gnome2 or ~/.gconf

try moving them... mv .gnome .gnome-bak one at a time and then log in again and see what works. Moving them rather than deleting them allows you to recover settings that you might want to keep

Craig