after login, the desktop remains blank.

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Published on 2011-01-21T10:36:34Z Indexed on 2011/03/03 7:32 UTC
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Hi,

I have installed Ubuntu 10 last night and finished all upgrading stuff, in the time when updates are applied I downloaded a torrent file. As soon as download is finished I rebooted my system. As usual at start up it asked my login and I did the same.

After a successful login It should show me the desktop, or show an error message in case anything has gone wrong. But what I had is only a cursor and a blank wall paper.

Can anybody tell me what is the problem and how to resolve this?

Thanks

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