blank desktop after fresh install

[Jim Cornette]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   (i apologize for coming late to the party, but i'm just getting
> around to test installing f9-alpha so i might need a few dumb
> questions to catch up.)
> 
>   from a fresh install yesterday (and selecting pretty much all the
> defaults as a start), when the system came back up, i logged in as
> "guest" but got only a blank desktop.  totally blank.
> 
>   i checked bugzilla (i'm assuming fedora "rawhide" version) and
> searched on "blank desktop" but nothing came up.  has this been BZed?
> what would have been a better search criteria?  thanks.
> 
> rday
> --

Blank as in no Icons, panels, menus or blank as in no illumination? 
Gnome came up once with just the background but came up correctly ever 
since.

Jim