The desktop once again

[Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner]

On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 23:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 10:13 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
> wrote:
> > Guys, I know we've been through this like a million times, and I'm sorry
> > in advance, but I can't get it fixed this time.
> > I installed this new workstation last saturday, installed my ports, etc.
> > Now I can't get my desktop to show on Gnome 2.14, after upgrading from
> > 2.12, where it did show.
> > I tried all the soluitions given on the list, rebuilding the cache,
> > rebuilding all the relevant ports, rebuilding individually, etc. to no
> > avail.
> > I simply can't get the desktop to show. Everything else seems to be
> > working OK, even the themes.
> > If I go to desktop preferences, all of a sudden a wallpaper will show
> > up, but no icons.
> > I've been at it for about a week and I really am at my wit's end.
> > Anyone have an idea?
> 
> How are you starting GNOME?  What errors do you see on the console or in
> ~/.xsession-errors?  What happens when you run nautilus from the command
> line while logged into GNOME?  What happens when you create a dummy
> account and try to login to GNOME?
> 
> Joe

Sorry for the delay, I was away for the weekend.
I wasn't getting any errors on the console and there's
no .xsession-errors file. I start GNOME via startx
(/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session in .xinitrc).
Starting Nautilus via a terminal only gave .gtkrc-2.0:2: Unable to find
include file: ".gtkrc-2.0-scrollbar_cog", which I was getting in my
previous setup also, I believe this is related to a theme somehow.
Anyway, this afternoon I crashed Nautilus by having a window open that
was pointing to a directory and then removing the directory via a
terminal. This caused Nautilus to crash, I clicked restart and my
Desktop's back! I got out of GNOME and back in and it seems to persist.