Ubuntu Tip : Howto recover gnome-panel
This tutorial will explain how to recover disappeared Application Menu, Places Menu and System Menu in ubuntu
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
Source one of reader suggested this and also you can check here
If you have any other soultions please share with us.
Why not just remove it from the startup apps?
I’m not sure if I’m talking about the same thing but once I lost my Applications Places System I just went to add to panel and chose custom menu..ofcourse this was when the panel itself was still present.
$ killall -1 gnome-panel
restarts gnome panel including whatever panel app on it that failed.
You can right click any place on desktop and make a launcher and type gnome-terminal on command space.
Then make double click on that launcher and on the terminal type gnome-panel
as chris says, it’s just to kill the gnome-panel and it’ll restart… though it’s very annoying that it continues to vanish… seems like it’s invisible or hidden behind the wallpaper and it’s affecting several apps, sure hope they’ll fix it soon…
The method in this tutorial also removes any customizations you’ve made to the panel yourself.
It is much easier to just re-add the Application Places System menus. Like Rosh says, right click on the panel, choose Add to Panel… and then add Menu Bar.
you can do it too running this commands:
gconftool –recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel
I deleted a panel that had a copy of my zip drive on it. When I installed the default ubuntu (9.1) panel my desktop was empty.
I am not as techy as you guys but I would really like to know if there is anyway to recover the folder that has my data/info/life in it that was on the original panel
Thanks
sudo gnome-panel will restore all ur menus and panel bt as soon as u dont leave ur terminal all settings are lost
any suggestion plz
I can’t believe we are now in 2010 and the Developers still have not made some kind of easy way to click and restore it.
Make a Startup Script for the permanent persistent of gnome-panel.
When I type gconftool –recursive-unset /apps/panel
as superuser (#) Ijust get;
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GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Aborted
I have the icons, but not the text-menus (usually top left). I have tried all other above tricks too; rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd etc. etc.
/IL
Never had a problem with this in ubuntu but just had to use it in mint. Panel was hanging on log in and crashing system, this fixed it. Thanks
I just experienced this problem on RHEL 6. My root and one user out of two users on the system both had this problem. I tried all the above, and none of it worked. I even moved teh entire /home/username direcotry to username.bak and created a new home directory, with no joy. What did work was I logged out, and opend a vty console at alt-f2, and copied the .gnome2, .gconf and .gconfd folders from the workig user to both the /root and /home/brokenuser. This worked.
cp -R /home/workinguser/.gnome2 /home/brokenuser/
cp -R /home/workinguser/.gconf /home/brokenuser/
cp -R /home/workinguser/.gconfd /home/brokenuser/
note there was no .gnome directory in any of the home directories in RHEL 6