in UBUNTU 8.04 the Gnome Panel disappeared in my case as well. Since I was 'lost' I actually reinstalled and then the same thing happened again. Now, I am virtually certain that the problem was created by an UPGRADE! I (of course) allowed the suggested upgrade (some 40 items) and that seemed to BREAK the system. I am so annoyed, is Ubuntu Linux now going down the Windows route!???
I managed to bring the panels back: The commands I used were: > kill gnome-panel > sudo apt-get install gnome-panel > gnome-panel ...the panels then restarted and reported three conflicts (little panels popped up) with other software (appletts, see below) (presumably the stuff from the upgrade). In every case I chose the option to remove the offending bit of saftware (joke for German readers) whenever I was prompted by these information panels. Hope this helps (not convinced other stuff is not broken...), Ole Conclusion, I would not upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 yet! =========================================== Here is a copy/paste from my terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ killall gnome-panel gnome-panel: no process killed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-panel The program 'gnome-panel' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install gnome-panel bash: gnome-panel: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-panel [sudo] password for ole: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: evolution-data-server-common gnome-control-center libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 Suggested packages: esound-clients xrdb fortunes-mod nautilus Recommended packages: evolution-data-server alacarte gnome-applets menu-xdg The following NEW packages will be installed evolution-data-server-common gnome-control-center gnome-panel libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8 0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1766kB of archives. After this operation, 13.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main evolution-data-server-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [72.1kB] Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main libedataserver1.2-9 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [112kB] Get: 3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main libcamel1.2-11 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [304kB] Get: 4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main libebook1.2-9 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [79.6kB] Get: 5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main gnome-control-center 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu4.1 [487kB] Get: 6 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main libecal1.2-7 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [242kB] Get: 7 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main libedataserverui1.2-8 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.1 [75.3kB] Get: 8 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main gnome-panel 1:2.22.1.2-0ubuntu3 [395kB] Fetched 1766kB in 0s (5868kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package evolution-data-server-common. (Reading database ... 92225 files and directories currently installed.) 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Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-panel ** (gnome-panel:21242): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1270: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet: System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Couldn't spawn a new process:Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet" (No such file or directory) (gnome-panel:21242): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -15 and height 24 ** (gnome-panel:21242): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1270: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet: System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Couldn't spawn a new process:Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/gnome-applets/mixer_applet2" (No such file or directory) ** (gnome-panel:21242): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1270: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet: (null) -- [Kubuntu 8.04] KDE Panel disappears for ever after crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
