9.04 menus & bars not loading after update

[Lanser]

I ran an upgrade a few days ago and lost all of my bars, panels and menus on a 9.04 install. But X seems to running fine. I can run 90% of all my apps by command line or file manager. I can even launch and configure alacarte but still can't get any of the panels and bars to show. I am thinking it is a python issue but so far no luck in tracking down the root cause. If anyone out there has experienced this or has an idea which conf file may have got corrupted, it will save me a few (more) grey hairs. many thanks

[arky]

Looks the gnome-panel is gone, try this

gnome-session-remove gnome-panel

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel

gnome-panel &

[Lanser]

Many thanks for the reply arky. It didn't solve the issue, but it did give me a couple of possible topics to research on the forum. Seems that the last firefox upgrade broke a number of gnome related links in a range of conf files. As previously indentified in another thread last year, Gnome was showing as uninstalled in synaptic. running a reinstall of gnome fixed the problem.

[arky]

If nothing works you can remove .gnome2* and startover