Gnome desktop does nothing no icons

[Sertaç Ö. Yıldız]

[23.May.07 17:13 -0700] Antonio Olivares:
>How do I kill esd/alsa?

Login from a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and use:
   killall -v esd

> [gnome] does not repond.

If this is the bug I think it is¹, this might fix it for now:
   gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd -t bool false

¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238680

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~sertaç