Comment 3 for bug 49594

This happens to me often:

  1. I boot the machine, log in
  2. after some time I press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to log out quickly
  3. I get a gdm login screen and log in again
  4. I get a blank desktop and nothing happens.

If I use ps at point 3, I see a number of processes left over from my previous session:

  - bonobo-activation-server
  - gconfd
  - evolution-data-server
  - several applets (netspeed, battstat, gweather, mixer, multiload, cpufreq)
  - esd

I can only log into gdm after logging into a text console and killing these processes manually.

neuromancer, what did you mean by "restarting"? Restarting X, or rebooting the computer? If rebooting, then what I see is a different bug.