Craig,

Thanks. I actually rebooted the machine after apt-get upgrade and that is
when the problem occurred. I then shutdown the machine and started it up
again and the problem persisted.

I looked in /var/log for a gnome log, but I don't see anything. Dmesg
doesn't show any errors that I can see. Where does gnome write error
messages?

Thanks again!

Mark

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:48 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I am running Debian testing on my laptop. Just completed a routine
> > apt-get update apt-get upgrade, and now all my desktop icons are gone
> > and every time I access the menus (Applications, Places, System) the
> > upper and lower menu bars disappear and then come back. I am writing
> > this email in a browser window, so once an application is launched it
> > seems to work OK.
> >
> >
> > I have no idea where to start debugging this problem. Any suggestions
> > are welcome!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > P.S. I am running gnome, not KDE. Also, I cannot right click on the
> > desktop - nothing happens.
> ----
> if one of the core libraries for gnome has changed, you might need to
> log out and log back in again.
>
> Craig
>
>
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