9.10 gnome panel not loading

[rggavubt]

I just upgraded to 9.10 and the gnome panel is not loading/responding. I can't click anything on the top panel. It is frozen. When I cntrl, alt, delete to shut down(only way to shut down) it says Panel not responding, do you want to shut down anyway. On occasion, it loads properly and the system works properly. I'm using a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop. Anyone else having similar problems. I finally put my most used programs on the desktop so I could use them.

[PolluxBR]

Same here

Desktop Dell Core2 Duo.


edit: I fix it.

Try just restart the panel first.

at first, try this:

killall gnome-panel
gnome-panel &

And see if it works.


I've done this (this will clean all your visual preferences, themes icons, etc.)

Procedure to follow 1) First you need to Boot the system upto Login Window and now Press Ctrl+Alt+F1
2) Now You will get a Text based login screen use your username and password to login
3) run the following Command from your terminal

$ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd

Now Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 you get your normal GUI login window

and then

killall gnome-panel
gnome-panel &

Try just restart the panel first.

[rggavubt]

Same here

Desktop Dell Core2 Duo.


edit: I fix it.

Try just restart the panel first.

at first, try this:

killall gnome-panel
gnome-panel &

And see if it works.


I've done this (this will clean all your visual preferences, themes icons, etc.)

Procedure to follow 1) First you need to Boot the system upto Login Window and now Press Ctrl+Alt+F1
2) Now You will get a Text based login screen use your username and password to login
3) run the following Command from your terminal

$ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd

Now Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 you get your normal GUI login window

and then

killall gnome-panel
gnome-panel &

Try just restart the panel first.

It seems to have worked itself out after doing upgrades. I had loaded the 9.10 beta and now after many upgrades it seems to be working OK and loading every time. Thanks for your reply.

[strange_cathect]

I just upgraded to 9.10 and I am having this problem. I'm unable to access any programs that do not have links on my desktop. All panels do not load. Rebooting does not solve the issue. My machine is basically bricked right now.

[FeTTo]

strange im having the same problem

kill gnome-panel just kills one panel and leaves the other frozen panel there. and i try it again and it wont do anything, then i try "gnome-panel &) and get "steve@steve-laptop:~$ killall gnome-panel
steve@steve-laptop:~$ gnome-panel &
[2] 7059
steve@steve-laptop:~$ Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
^C
[2]+ Exit 255 gnome-panel
"


i dont know wtf to do

[dakebusi]

Same problem here. I upgraded to 9.10 a few days ago, and every time I boot my machine and log in the GNOME Panel is not properly loaded.

I've followed the suggestions posted above (rm -f .gnome... and killall gnome-panel). It works, but only for one session. If I reboot the machine I have the same problem again and again.

Is that a 9.10 bug or is it something about GNOME configuration files?

Thanks a lot!

[FeTTo]

i had to kill gnome panel all together and restore it back to default and start allllll over again

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

[don1ogan]

Same here!
This is on new installation of 9.10, for a week everything was okay and now the panel half loads then freezes. On a forced restart a message flashes on the splash screen, the key word I can catch is "Esc"

then another flashed message this time the key word is "Ctrl+D" this process gives me a normal desktop.

Today I had to repeat this process half a dozen times be for this worked.

[starcannon]

gnome-panel has suddenly started just disappearing. I can click where the menu's are, and they drop down, but the panel itself is not visible.

[lumpy2000]

just created script:

#!/bin/sh

gksudo pkill gnome-panel