I have a client who emailed me earlier and said that his desktop is blank. The toolbar is present but all of his desktop shortcuts are gone and he has a black desktop.
I just ssh-ed into his machine and discovered that nautilus is not running for his username.
So... how can I fix that?
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:01:01 -0800 (PST) nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Have him log out and log back in again? Check for errors in the user's ~/.xsession-errors to try to determine why it might of crashed.
I tried that, and then I told him to reboot the whole computer but neither action changed anything.
I then suggested that he try opening a terminal window and typing "nautilus".
He replied and said that it's working now.
Weird. I hope whatever it was stays fixed.
On Feb 8, 2008 10:30 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:01:01 -0800 (PST) nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Have him log out and log back in again? Check for errors in the user's ~/.xsession-errors to try to determine why it might of crashed.
I tried that, and then I told him to reboot the whole computer but neither action changed anything.
I then suggested that he try opening a terminal window and typing "nautilus".
He replied and said that it's working now.
Weird. I hope whatever it was stays fixed.
Have him check the permissions on the gnome executables and libraries.
mhr
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:59:47 -0800 MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
Have him check the permissions on the gnome executables and libraries.
I have a VNC desktop on that machine and nautilus never stopped working for me.
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