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Top and Bottom toolbars are missing, how do I get them back?

Asked by tesaba

Hi, (newbie here)
It all started with my screen freezing up, had to re-boot manually and when I did my login screen would appear, I would type in my password and only thing that would happen would be that my login screen would just come back up. My son was able to finally get
to my desktop but, when he did my top and bottom toolbars were missing. I have tried a few things that I have found in the forums on ubuntu.com and on here. Nothing seems to work. I keep getting an input/output read error.
Thanks in advance for any help.

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tesaba (terry-r-bartley) said : 		#1

Is there anyway to just reformat the hard drive and do a complete re-install? I am getting error codes with everything I try.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#2

Open up a Terminal window, by clicking on Applications \ Accessories \ Terminal. Or, if you deleted the top panel and cannot access the menus, just press ALT+F2 and in the run dialog box, type gnome-terminal then click on Run.

Once the Terminal window opens, enter the following command at the prompt:

gconftool-2 – -shutdown

(Note: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

EDIT – Reader nickrud has suggested a better method instead of shutting down gconfd. Instead use the following command (thanks nickrud!)

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel

(Remember: There should be no spaces between the two dashes before shutdown.)

Then enter the next command:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

And enter one more command:

pkill gnome-panel

That's it!

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#3

  WHEN YOU TYPE IN YOUR PASSWORD YOU WILL NOT SEE IT JUST CLICK ENTER .SECURITY THING !

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You are WAAAY to quick to jump to a clean install. If you run:

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

It will set the panels to default.

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tesaba (terry-r-bartley) said : 		#5

im trying this right now....let ya know the out come

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tesaba (terry-r-bartley) said : 		#6

this is what i got when i ran the first command:

gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel

terry@terry-laptop:~$ gconftool – -recursive-unset /apps/panel
Error while parsing options: Unknown option -recursive-unset.
Run 'gconftool --help' to see a full list of available command line options.

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tesaba (terry-r-bartley) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.