I'm seeing this same issue. The dock disappears after the machine turns off the monitor after 5 minutes of inactivity. I don't have hibernate or suspend enabled. Per Daniel's suggestion, I ran gnome-tweaks and enabled the Ubuntu Dock extension...
Other symptoms - the dock reappears after logging out and logging back in (without rebooting). Reboot has the same effect. Dmesg had these items: ----------------------------- [ 460.434824] SUPR0GipMap: fGetGipCpu=0xb [ 473.917454] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VMMR0.r0 [ 474.324096] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VBoxDDR0.r0 [ 474.472968] vboxpci: created IOMMU domain 000000005ee2f99d [ 474.537348] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VBoxEhciR0.r0 [ 4259.199795] hrtimer: interrupt took 127916 ns [13336.682152] vboxpci: freeing IOMMU domain 000000005ee2f99d [15610.932020] radeon_dp_aux_transfer_native: 158 callbacks suppressed [15654.458878] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VMMR0.r0 [15654.760601] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VBoxDDR0.r0 [15654.899366] vboxpci: created IOMMU domain 00000000140fae37 [15654.977123] vboxdrv: 0000000000000000 VBoxEhciR0.r0 [29134.487850] radeon_dp_aux_transfer_native: 158 callbacks suppressed [34517.784519] radeon_dp_aux_transfer_native: 158 callbacks suppressed [76137.149220] radeon_dp_aux_transfer_native: 158 callbacks suppressed ----------------------------- Thanks in advance for taking a look at this! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1801494 Title: dock missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/+bug/1801494/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs