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Upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, have no menu bar

Asked by raylsimmonds

Upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04. Now I have no Menu bar at the top of the screen. At boot-up of computer there is two error messages before the user's sign-in box appears:
Error: No suitable mode found
Error: Unknown command 'terminal'
So far the only command that I found to work is 'ALT F1' to give me the Program Menu.
I have nothing to shut-down or restart the computer.
Thanks.

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Dawning (dawning) said : 		#1

If you login as a brand new user, does the menu bar work then?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

When you say "menu bar". do you mean the bar at the top and bottom of the desktop?

You could also run:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/terminal

in an ALT+F2 dialogue.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Maybe related.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1471349
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9235640

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raylsimmonds (raylsimmonds) said : 		#4

If I login as a brand new user, after boot-up or restart the menu bar
works!
If I were to log-off from my own "partition" and another user were to
log-on, then no menu bar!

Dawning wrote:
> Your question #109671 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/109671
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> Dawning requested for more information:
> If you login as a brand new user, does the menu bar work then?
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raylsimmonds (raylsimmonds) said : 		#5

The fix worked! Each user has their own program menu bar at the top of their screens.
Thank you,