Gnome panels, windows, and desktop icons fail to start, only wallpaper and mouse initialize on login

[xplinux557]

Binary package hint: gnome

Whenever I log in to my computer, the Gnome Panels, windows, icons, sounds, applications, and desktop icons fail to load! Only the desktop wallpaper and cursor are visible on the screen.
Why does it fail like that?

[xplinux557 (eyal95)]

I've tried going into Failsafe GNOME to fix the problem,
but I can't find it. Even the System Log didn't say anything
regarding Gnome 2.22.3 failing.

[Matthew Lye (matthew.lye)]

Which version of Ubuntu is the occurring under?
Have you tried to enable desktop effects/compiz?

What steps would we need to take to replicate the problem from a clean install?

[xplinux557 (eyal95)]

This is Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy. I've tried enabling and disabling certain startup scripts, but it still won't do anything!
Compiz Fusion isn't the problem because it works normally when enabled in Failsafe mode.
Anyway, all what I remember happening is that I clicked on the Clock applet on the Gnome panel and Gnome froze up. Then I rebooted and Gnome failed to load.

[Matthew Lye (matthew.lye)]

I was just checking to see you didnt enable compiz then lose your desktop.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

why this was marked as private? please don't do it without giving a good reason, thanks in advance.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. It isn't clear from your description whether you could log in to the failsafe session successfully. Can you confirm if this is the case?

Also, does this happen if you create a new user on your system?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don\'t hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.