help! no menu bar on bootup

[hiro nakamatty]

hi, i booted Ubuntu hardy heron up this morning, and when i logged on, there was no menu bar at the top and bottom of the screen. can any1 help, it would be greatly appreciated.
thanks, Matty

[adityakavoor]

Hit Alt+F2 and type

gnome-session-remove gnome-panel
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
gnome-panel &

[hiro nakamatty]

sorry, but when i hit alt+F2, it doesn't do anything
thanks

[msayed2004]

Try to restart your PC.
Alt+F2 type

gnome-terminal

this will open the terminal, execute

sudo reboot

or restart your X by Alt+Ctrl+Backspace.
If nothing happened open the terminal again & execute

gnome-panel

& tell us what it say.

And take a look @ Working With Panels

Edit : did not see your last comment, Right click on your desktop & create a launcher for your terminal (above command) this may help you.

[hiro nakamatty]

i coded the gnome panel bit, it asked me to install it, so i did, and it seems to have done the trick
thanks all who helped me!