gnome 2.22: no background, no icons on 1st login, ok on 2nd

[magowiz]

Hi,
I have a problem : when I boot the system and login the first time with gnome 2.22 I get a black background and no incons on my desktop. If I logout and login again I can see background and icons again. What should it be ?

[jmartos]

I'm having the exact same problem, except it does seem to be intermittent. Most of the time I log in, I get the problem and every now and then I dont. I'm using x86-64 stable and gnome 2.22. Any help would be approciated. I cannot find anything in any log file that would point me to a solution.

[Clad in Sky]

I have a similar problem sometimes. I have a background but all icons are missing.
killall nautilus does the trick.
What _causes_ this is another question. Dunno. It's very rare on my system.
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[tom_bxl]

Same here; no desktop icons at first login.

[jmartos]

Anyone have any suggestions on what could be the problem here?

[audiodef]

Can you guys post emerge --info? It might be a USE flag issue.
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[overkll]

Over the years, I've had this issue several times on different machines. If it's intermitent, sometimes nuking all the files in /tmp helps. Sometimes there are duplicate directories for one user, like /tmp/orbit-username. If it turns into a permanent problem, I've found that /home/username/.gconf needs to be recreated by logging out, moving ~/.gconf, then logging in again. The only problem with that is that the gnome settings are reset to default and one has to re-customize ones desktop again. A bit of a pain, but it works.

[tom_bxl]

Here is my emerge --info. Thanks!

[audiodef]

tom, have you tried overkill's suggestion?

One note on your make.conf - ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should be "~x86".

Also, as someone else was good enough to point out to me recently, unless there's a specific reason for it, you don't need a monolithic package and could emerge gnome-light instead. I never need evolution and all that other gnome-specific stuff, preferring instead to use the mail and browser programs of my choice.
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[tom_bxl]

Thanks for the replies, overkll & audiodef.

[jmartos]

I also tried the two suggestions, removing /tmp and .gconf. Both did not help. Still looking for a fix.

[audiodef]

If you want stable, and not arch, shouldn't you comment out the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS line? I installed Gnome without ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and it has no issues (of course, others, and I, have installed it WTIH ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and it was fine, but sometimes a system has its own quirks).

Totally last ditch suggestion, one I've used when I've come across something I couldn't solve otherwise: start again. Don't do nothin' fancy with make.conf until everything is up and running. I did that on the system I'm using right this minute, because otherwise xdm/xorg/login manager would not work. Period. Once it was up and I wanted masked stuff (~arch or otherwise), I used the package.* files rather than ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, otherwise a single emerge uDN world would eff it all up.

A pain in the a$$, I know, but it might solve your problem. If you tweak your make.conf a little at a time you might come across the one thing that made this mess and comment out that option. I've also found that a few fresh Gentoo installs eventually hammers it home what not to do with a particular machine and what I can get away with.
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