Fedora 12: Desktop icons invisible and File Browser doesn't work

[pras39]

Hi guys,

I installed Fedora 12 yesterday. After installation, I added some packages like gstreamer*, amarok, vlc etc.
Once I rebooted, all desktop icons became invisible and I'm unable to open file browser and browse files/folders.
When I log out, I get this message saying "File Manager not responding!"

I initially thought I messed up with settings, and created a new account. Still no use.

BTW, I use Gnome Desktop Environment.

I went further and installed Fedora 12 again. And did the same package installation. And after reboot, no desktop
items is visible and can't browse files/folders using file browser (nautilus). Is this some known bug?
If yes, what is the workaround/solution?

Thanks,
Prashant.

[pras39]

I found that other Desktop Environments namely KDE and XFCE work well. I'm using XFCE
now. If any body finds any solution to Gnome thing, please post it.

Thanks!
Prashant.

---------- Post added at 12:55 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 PM CST ----------

Hi,

finally I found a quick work around. Some library (libgstlv2.so) from the package gstreamer-plugins-bad I installed
was creating this whole mess. I removed gstreamer-plugins-bad, and rebooted the system. Everything is working
fine for me as of now.

$ sudo yum remove libgstlv2.so
$ reboot

Thanks,
Prashant.

[Circassian]

Yep... Works for me too..
Thanx.

[dustfinger1]

It makes absolutely no sense to me, but the solution posted here fixed the issue for me:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...light=nautilus

just uninstall, logout, login, and reinstall. Working so far for me. This is assuming you've got gstreamer from rpmfusion (why wouldn't you?). I'm using gnome with nautilus, if it matters at all

[Darr247]

I agree it doesn't make sense, but I just had it happen to me while fetching about 90 updates yumex said were waiting when I ran it to install wlassistant (that works so much better for me than the stock wireless tool... it should be on the DVD/CDs, IMHO). Kernel 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.* was among the updates, for what it's worth.

After seeing a few mentions here in the forums of the symptom having to do with nautilus, I tried starting that.
Got "command not found"
then it asked if I wanted to find it, so I said 'y' - the simulation found 3 dependencies missing.

Then I did
$ su -
password:
# yum install nautilus

Mar 11 02:00:45 Installed: DeviceKit-disks-009-3.fc12.i686
Mar 11 02:01:15 Installed: gnome-disk-utility-libs-2.28.1-1.fc12.i686
Mar 11 02:01:22 Installed: gvfs-1.4.3-6.fc12.i686
Mar 11 02:01:36 Installed: nautilus-2.28.4-2.fc12.i686

Rebooted (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does NOT kill X for me - was that shortcut changed?), and bingo - icons are back.

I don't know why those dependencies and Nautilus got removed. (?)