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Today is a very very bad day for me. All my 3 machines with Linux are in a strike today. Just problems with hardware, problems with software and now this with Gnome:
In my RedHat 7.3, Gnome got broken. All menus and icon desktops and task-bar have suddenly disappeared. I've formated the computer, install again Linux Redhat 7.3 and everything was working as it should be. Downloaded and installed all the packages, restarted, everything perfect. After a couple of hours, I put my computer on again and bingo, the icons at my desktop have disappeared, but not the task-bar this time...
Does anybody knows what may be causing this to my computer? I've been using Redhat 7.3 for a couple of weeks at this machine without any problem...
I've not had this much of problems with Linux (see all my other threads, specially about hardware) since Windows 95, which BTW, never made odd stuff to me like destroying the desktop for no apparent reason. Makes me really think how worthy is to keep linux at all sometimes... (did I say it loud? lol).
This computer is a Pentium II, 400 MHZ, 512 RAM and never gave me a problem...
If you launch nautilus, it will re-do the desktop items.
If you screw up the Gnome configuration, you can always delete the /home/<username>/.gnome* folders and restart x. You get the beginning desktop re-built that way.
Yeah, I've updated RedHat, but I've got that problem precisely before I've updated. It's very strange. It pops up a very quick message when I restart saying there's an error with python.
I will try as you've said. Thanks immensely for the quick answer...
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