no desktop icons on cold start when iPod connected

[Bernhard Schuster]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Ubuntu 8.04
x86_64
Gnome 2.22.2
Whenever I plug my iPod to my box, before I do a "coldstart" it, I will suffer from an empty Desktop (no icons, folders, mounted hds visible).
On xserver restart (<ALT><STRG><BACKSPACE>) everything returns to normal.

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

iPod 8GB black nano 2G

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, what do you mean with a coldstart? a normal startup? May you please attach your ~/.xsession-errors file after you get the issue? thanks.

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

A "coldstart" means that it did not have any previous power supply (PC is cold).
Will attach x-session errors log later. Is there anything else I can do?

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

there isn't an wallpaper visible either

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

It happens more often, if I leave my iPod plugged and shutdown ubuntu. remove any power supply. And do a coldstart..

.xsession-errors is attached

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

How can I help to speed up this bugfix? (Don#t tell me to fix it myself, I am not skilled enough to fix it myself, yet)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can try to send the bug directly to bugzilla.gnome.org too but the issue is that thousand of bugs are open and only limited ressources to work on those

is nautilus working when you get the issue?

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

Everything works fine, except the desktop-background and its icons,.. and the panel's alpha blending is messed up (only grey, no transparency)

[Joachim R. (jro)]

I have sometime this problem @ cold startup, but without any iPod plugged.
When I have no icon, no background, etc... at startup, I kill the process launched with "nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2" command line, and then it restarts OK with the following command "nautilus --sm-client-id 117f000101000121562986900000064200001 --screen 0".

[Joachim R. (jro)]

Found this one thatmay be related http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?ctype=xml&id=1565

[Bernhard Schuster (drahnr)]

I did not get this bug in a while, I think for more than one month it didn't turn up... maybe it got fixed?? Need someone to confirm..

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the report then, thanks.