After login, the desktop gnome-panel and the menus are gone, but only background appears in RHEL 6

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Issue

  • Try to use locale ko_KR.eucKR or zh_CN.GB18030 with the Gnome desktop.
  • The locale is not selectable from the login menu after making manual modifications (see Environment).
  • After login the desktop background appears however gnome-panel and the menus never appear.
  • The screen remains in this state and user has to kill the session to return to GDM.
  • No mouse event.
  • too many errors on .xsession_errors

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • GNOME Desktop
  • Non UTF-8 locale (GB2312, GBK, GB18030, eucKR, and so on)

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