Having posted a bug report, deskbar has of course worked perfectly since the last time I logged in. Have not done anything in the way of upgrades or messing around with config files. The only thing I can think of was that I ran tracker-search-tool for the first time since upgrading to feisty, maybe that initialised something the deskbar tracker extension needed? Just a shot in the dark.
Will close this in a week if there are no recurrences. -- fails to start after upgrade to feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/75461 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs