Panels gone

[isomorph]

Hi All,

I am an absolute noob. Just installed my first Ubuntu ever yesterday.

So today I started my laptop and the panels ( I think they are called panels, the bars on top and on the bottom of the desktop) were gone.

I only get the background image and the mouse is there too.

How do I get the panels back.

Please give me a stpe by step advise like you would give your grandma

Cheers iso

[ryanhaigh]

press alt-f2 to bring up the run application dialog, then enter gnome-panel and hit enter.

[isomorph]

No reaction when I press Alt+F2

cheers

Iso

[anuban]

Same here...
Nothing happend with Alt+F2.
Someone please help...

[anuban]

Got the trick:

• Press CTRL+ALT+F2
• Login and password
• sudo apt-get remove gnome-panel
• sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
• sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop.
• Restart...

everything should be fine.

Thanks for the help guys...

[isomorph]

I tried ctr alt F2 before.

But install the gnome did not really work.

So I decided this morning I install the whole system freshly.

No harm because I just started testing it so no data loss.

Thank you all anyway.

cheers

Iso

[lenn-art]

I tried ctr alt F2 before.

But install the gnome did not really work.

So I decided this morning I install the whole system freshly.

No harm because I just started testing it so no data loss.

Thank you all anyway.

cheers

Iso

Did you remove Evolution?

[isomorph]

hey lenn-art,

Exactly that was the problem I found it out today.

I removed Evolution and then I saw that it will also remove gnome-panel.

Is there anyway to remove evolution (I use thunderbird) and only evolution?

cheers iso

[taugust04]

hey lenn-art,

Exactly that was the problem I found it out today.

I removed Evolution and then I saw that it will also remove gnome-panel.

Is there anyway to remove evolution (I use thunderbird) and only evolution?

cheers iso

Hate to bump this after a week, but... a friend of mine had this issue just yesterday. Thankfully we found this thread and got it figured out. Question... should this get filed as a bug? Does anyone know why when uninstalling Evolution that gnome-panel gets uninstalled. I know I was able to uninstall Evolution in 7.04 without an issue like this. I'm just not a fan of Evolution and prefer Thunderbird.

A second related question... what would the correct command be to uninstall Evolution without uninstalling gnome-panel. It seems that one is listed as a dependency of the other.

Thanks for your help!

[flostre]

I also have this problem from time to time: No panels, no right-click context-menu, alt+f2 does not work. Only my Pidgin contact list starts normally and the background image is there. However, when I reboot everything is fine and back to normal. Just restarting X does not work.

I did not remove Evolution, as a matter of fact, I only installed it on Monday (June 2nd). (I booted my laptop four times w/o problems after that so I think it is unrelated.) Also, gnome-panel and ubuntu-desktop are installed.

And gnome-panel is not only installed, it is also running, as can be verified on tty2 using

ps -A | grep panel

.

I am posting this from my office desktop PC. My laptop is currently in the discussed state. I have no ideas where to start a diagnosis.

Can anyone help?

flostre