Re: Weird Flashing Behavior

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

>      I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on an Intel box and began using
>  Gnome.  It has been running fine for several weeks.  Now, I am getting a
>  very odd behavior.
>  
>       When I log into gnome, white cutouts of my icons appear where the
>  icons would normally be on the left side of my screen and a midnight
>  commander window opens up in my home directory,  then they all
>  disappear, and then they appear again.  It just keeps cycling like
>  that.
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Please upgrade to the latest RPMS and tell us if the problem persists.
The stock Red Hat Linux 6.1 had a version of MC with an important
problem at initialization.

  Federico