Menu bar and task bar have disappeared

[hussar]

I was recently having problems with Me TV, and I had to kill it in a terminal window. When I killed it, it didn't release the DVB-T stick and when I launched Kaffeine, it told me that there was no device available. I re-booted rather than trying to figure out where the lock file was or whatever the problem might have been.

Now, when I boot into my desktop, I am missing the menu bar and the task bar. Also, under Applications -> Settings -> XFCE Settings Manager, the Panel icon doesn't launch any settings dialog when clicked.

How can I get my menu bar and task bar back?

Cheers,
hussar

[BabyRabbit96]

I have ran into this problem before with previous experience and personally I did not get it back but one person I knew had also the same problem. She just went to the bottom panel>right click>add new panel>bring panel to top of screen>right click>add to panel>then add all the things you NEED back to your panel. It is all there on the one little window. BUT: It takes a little effort and a little time to get everything you need back. You can't just get the whole panel itself back...

[hussar]

Thanks for the quick response, but what you've suggested won't work for me. I don't have a bar or panel at the bottom or the top. They're both gone.

[ajgreeny]

Try
killall gnome-panel
gnome-panel in terminal, or if that does nothing kill the xsession with Alt Gr+Print Screen+K then login again to see if the panel reappears.

EDIT: Sorry, I see you are using xfce. Use xfce4-panel not gnome-panel

[hussar]

Thanks! Your suggestion helped a lot. I tried killall xfce4-panel, but the XFCE4 panel wasn't running. So, I started it with xfce4-panel &, and I've got everything back.

Now I can concentrate on my problems with Me TV and Kaffeine.