I'm also an affected user. Today after the first startup of the machine the indicator dissapear. I applied the solution of Billisaacs (in the other duplicated thread) after just killing the the unity panel this appears in my terminal.
**@MyComputer:~$ apt-get install indicator-datetime E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? **@MyComputer:~$ killall unity-panel-service **@MyComputer:~$ And after that, the datetime indicator appears. I have to note that I "killed" the unity panel service and the datetime indicator before, but it didn't appear and my "Date time settings" continued grayed. After run the Billisaacs solution everything was fine. So, maybe for some reason, the lock file is not cleared properly after upgrade which (I think) explains why it affects only the user who uses more the machine, which usually is the same user who do the updates. My two cents and sorry for my English. I'm not a native speaker. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244285 Title: Date/time sometimes doesn’t appear in menu bar, settings greyed out (Ubuntu 13.10, 14.04) Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Incomplete Status in The Date and Time Indicator: Incomplete Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: it does not happen often, and when it happens, just a log out and re- log in is enough to restore it. http://askubuntu.com/questions/357266/how-to-show-time-in- ubuntu-13-10/357280 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1244285/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
