need to login using gnome failsafe or i see no panels

[stinger30au]

i have installed 10.04 on a pc thats many years old. it has an asus mainboard and a pentium 3 933 cpu and onboard video


if i start 10.04 with gnome fail safe everything works fine i can see the menu at top of screen that says


applications places system


but if i log out and set to login using gnome, i dont get the panels

however, my desktop loads and my mouse works and i can even press ctrl+alt+del and have a on screen option that says to shutdown or restart


any clues on whats going on and how to fix it??

thanks

[stinger30au]

with a bit of googling i found an answer

http://albertsiow.wordpress.com/2008...-ubuntu-gnome/

i will save it here for prosperity

In the terminal
2. gconftool-2 — – shutdown (no space between the dashes and no space between the dash and the word ‘shutdown’)
3. rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
4. pkill gnome-panel – That’s it!






the first time i did it and restarted i again had no panels for top/bottom


i had to save the session


do this by system
preferences
startup


and click in the box


remember currently running applications


then shutdown and restart




presto!

[jless]

Thanks a lot stinger30au, I also had the same problem. It drove me crazy trying to solve it, I even re installed Ubuntu, to no avail! Here comes your solution, it worked wonderfully.

Thanks!!!