> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 03:18, Michael Velez wrote: > > I guess I corrupted the desktop when I rebooted through VNC > but I don't know > > how to get it back. > > > > Is there a way of retrieving this without having to delete > this user and > > 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. Michael