Re: [Nautilus-list] Help - Blank GNOME desktop or root warning messages after installing Nautilus

[Eli Goldberg <eli eazel com>]

Dylan Beattie wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just installed Nautilus release 1.0 on RedHat 7... finally resolved all the
> package dependencies, got a clean install, typed 'nautilus', got a warning
> message about running it as root, and then it loaded fine. Very impressive,
> I must say... until I reconfigured X to run at a higher res. Now if I log on
> as root and run nautilus, all I get is the same warning message 'You are
> running Nautilus as root...' again and again - click 'OK', bit of disk
> thrashing, then the same message again.
>
> Worse, if I log on as a normal user, I get a completely blank Gnome
> desktop - no icons, no panel, no pop-up menu - nothing - and after about ten
> seconds it dumps me back at the Gnome login screen - whether this is an
> actual log-out or the X server dying, I can't establish. Anyone encountered
> this problem or know a fix?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> -D-
>
> -------------------------
> Dylan Beattie <dylan zepler org>
> http://www.zepler.org/~dylan
>
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Dylan,

Is it possible that you ended up not having the ORBit package when you were
done? That was one common scenario at Eazel which resulted in the same symptoms
you've described.