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I upgraded to 11.04 and now my screen only shows the wall paper and nothing else

Asked by Forteshw

As the subject says I updated my system this morning and now when ever it starts up the only that is visible is the background. I fell asleep while it was upgrading so I'm sure if that helps or not. Is there any possible way to fix this? Also I am using a netbook as well so I dont know if that factors into things

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you press CTRL+ALT+T do you get a terminal?

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Forteshw (forteshw) said : 		#2

Yes I do

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Great. Run:

nautilus -q; gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

Does it help?

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Bill Ballard (w-p-ballard) said : 		#4

I have the exact same problem on a Dell Mini netbook. That command came back with gnome-panel: no process found

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Forteshw (forteshw) said : 		#5

No that didn't work. I had the same result as the above poster.

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Jim Maynard (ih8charvas) said : 		#6

Ditto on my MSI Netbook, for problem and fix in terminal.

As an aside if you still wish to use the Internet, ctrl-alt-delete, help, page- get help online: this should open a browser.
(i know there probably is an easier shortcut, but i'm new to ubuntu..)

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Robin Noya (rbnoya-gmail) said : 		#7

I've just installed 11.04 and have encountered the exact same problem as the people above...all I get is
my back ground and no application launcher!!!
I also tried the script in the terminal suggestion but get " command not found "
.
sometimes i can guess where the apps may be and tap to the left of my screen , so far I get firefox and Skype but all of this is guess work and it doesn't always work.
any other suggestions????

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Robin Noya (rbnoya-gmail) said : 		#8

Just to add some more details to my question above
I have just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04
on a Eeepc ASUS 1000HE
Everything worked fine before upgrading to 11.04

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Andy Piecuch (apiecuch) said : 		#9

If I go to the terminal and type in "unity", then hit enter. Wait about twenty seconds, then my desktop icons all come back and all my files, pictures....etc are all there. everything works great. The problem is if I reboot I have to do it again. I'm sure someone can figure this out....right?

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