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gnome-panel package

no menus on boot-up

Asked by Dennis Haddox

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 last night and it was working very well although when I booted up the computer this morning it went to the desktop and loaded the wallpaper but there were no menus. I tried a couple more times but still had no menus. Then on the login screen, at the bottom, I changed it to "failsafe Gnome" and the menus were back. I then shut it down and tried it again without changing it and the menus didn't show again. It appears that now I can only get the menus if I boot with "failsafe Gnome". What is causing this? It worked fine last night but now it is doing this! This is the desktop version 32bit of Ubuntu 10.04.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

when you boot normal, can you press ALT+F2 and get the normal launcher box?

If so run:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

Should be ok.

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Dennis Haddox (heartzdude) said : 		#2

I did get a launcher box when I pressed ALT-F2 and I did run the string command that you indicated, unfortunately it didn't correct the problem.
There is another problem that may be related, I am not sure. After POST the screen shows:
error: no suitable mode found
error: unknown command 'terminal'.
Thank you for responding, if you have any further suggestions to correct this problem, I would be very appreciative.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/519358

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Dennis Haddox (heartzdude) said : 		#4

Okay so the error messages are a bug, but even when I had those after the install it booted up normally. It is slightly annoying to have to change it to "failsafe Gnome" each time now.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#5

What do you mean with 'no menus'.

Do you have a panel?
Is there a panel but it has no menus?
Or is there no panel at all?

Open a terminal via Alt+F2 and type:
gnome-panel

What happens?

> installed Ubuntu 10.04

First on to_do_list after installation is updating the system.
There was a bug which is fixed. So the panel issue should be gone after the update.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

How to restore gnome panels and toolbars disappered on Ubuntu

A) When you see the clean desktop without toolbar:
- press alt-f2 a little window will come in fron of you
- ins this window field type:

gnome-terminal

Then press enter a terminal window will come in front of you:

type (a single row a time then press enter) :

gconftool –-recursive-unset /apps/panel;
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel;
pkill gnome-panel

B) if you cannot get access to terminal using method A then:
- press ctrl + alt + F2 you will get a pseudo terminal black screen in front of you
- Make login with your user and password (when you type the password you will not see any screen chars, so type in then press enter)
- then when you get access, type (a single row a time then press enter) :

gconftool –-recursive-unset /apps/panel;
rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/apps/panel;
pkill gnome-panel

Then press ctrl + alt + F7 to return to your desktop

Hope this helps

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Dennis Haddox (heartzdude) said : 		#7

Thank you to everybody that helped with my questions about the panel not appearing. The answers given will allow me to access it when it doesn't show on its own. I can live with that until the bugs are fixed.

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Rich Turnquist (turnyq) said : 		#8

This really helped me out. Is there something I can do so I don't have to do this every time?