Re: desktop icons on FC5 not anymore visible :-(

[Jehan PROCACCIA <Jehan Procaccia int-evry fr>]

OK, I found the problem, its local to our configuration.
we use cfengine (www.cfengine.org) to automate configurations and updates
unfortunaltly cfengine was configured with a umask of 077 instead of 022 !
now everything is fine again :-) .


Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
> hello
>
> The desktop icons (exept "computer", "home" and "trash") are not anymore 
> visible :-(
> all have "herited" a default icon. Even trying to manually change it is 
> not possible
> going in properties of the icon, trying to select file from 
> /usr/share/pixmaps/* doesn't even show .jpg, png etc ... files which are 
> there :-(
> Only when logged as root then everything works fine !
> Any idea of what is wong ? how to debug ? is this a gnome or nautilus pb ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS: versions:
> nautilus-2.14.3-1.fc5
> nautilus-cd-burner-2.14.3-1.fc5
> nautilus-sendto-0.4-7.2
> libgnome-2.14.1-1.fc5.1
> gnome-desktop-2.14.3-1.fc5
> # uname -a
> Linux arvouin.int-evry.fr 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 #1 Tue Aug 8 15:30:55 EDT 
> 2006 i686
> [root arvouin ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
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