seems like you are doing this inside a VM where you have already started a session / logged in? If so, because one gnome-session has run, you won't see it.
Try booting the VM and connecting from outside it without any session already running and without GDM set to autologin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689366 Title: Panel fails to load when connecting via XDMCP -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs