Binary package hint: gnome-panel
gnome-panel is not loading when I login. I get the desktop with the wallpaper and the icons but no gnome-panel.
If I use a desktop launcher to open a terminal and start `gnome-panel &` from there, it loads and works ok.
Deleting ~/.gnome2, ~/.gnome2_private, ~/.gconf, ~/.gconfd does not solve the problem. I get a fresh desktop configuration, but same behaviour as above.
Adding gnome-panel to the Startup Applications starts a gnome-panel, but it does not show. The only difference this makes is that when I open the terminal to fix the problem I have to do `killall gnome-panel` instead of `gnome-panel &`.
However, another account on the machine starts and loads gnome-panel just fine.
Please advise for any further information I can provide.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 21 12:57:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:5126): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:5126): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:5158): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5168): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
Came across this posting- I have the same problem, except on a Fedora 12 system. Intermittently, the gnome-panels do not appear on login, even though the process is running. Perhaps it's a problem with gnome that is OS agnostic.