I experience s similar behavior. Often when I login directly after booting the PC the desktop doesn't load (the backrgound image is shown, but no icons or context menu). After restarting X and trying again everything is fine. Seldom the gnome panel doesn't load, either.
This comes up from time to time, but I was not able to reproduce this right now. Looks like some kind of race condition to me. The next time it happens I'll look into my .xsession-errors and post the result here.
I experience s similar behavior. Often when I login directly after booting the PC the desktop doesn't load (the backrgound image is shown, but no icons or context menu). After restarting X and trying again everything is fine. Seldom the gnome panel doesn't load, either.
This comes up from time to time, but I was not able to reproduce this right now. Looks like some kind of race condition to me. The next time it happens I'll look into my .xsession-errors and post the result here.