What happened to my Desktop icons?

[Robin Laing]

Robin Laing wrote:
> peter kostov wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:12 -0600, fmiddleton at verizon.net wrote:
>>
>>> For some strange reason, when I logon now, Gnome doesn't display my 
>>> desktop icons... it displays my Panels but not the desktop icons. 
>>> Also, nautilus just won't start when I try to start it...
>>>
>>> Everything's fine when I login as root... I wonder if this has 
>>> somethig to d0 with permissions set by SELinux or something?
>>>
>>> Ferindo
>>>
>>
>> Login as root in a failsafe terminal and kill all the processes related
>> to your user:
>>
>> ps -u <username>
>> kill <pid>
>> (you may have to do kill -kill <pid> for some processes)
>>
>> Then you can login again as a normal user, with all your icons and
>> nautilus.
>> That will do the trick, but why is this happening  - maybe others will
>> explain... ;)
>>
>> Peter
>>

I am going to reply to this as a hind thought.  Yesterday I updated my 
laptop and when I went to login there were no desktop icons.  A reboot 
seemed to fix the problem.  Login as root was okay.

Hum?