Missing menu content in the unity top panel in LTSP enviroment

[Umberto Peserico]

In the unity session the content of top menu (application menu, sesssion menu) is missing in a LTSP client. The top panel displays only the grey bar with the application name.

Indicator applets adn session menu are totally missing.

It happens in a fresh ltsp installation with ubuntu 14.04 LTS
The unity version is 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Tue Aug 5 22:05:37 2014
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Umberto Peserico (umberto-peserico)]

I saw that the unity-panel-service is not started. If I launch /usr/lib/unity/unity-panel-service, the menu appears

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Please, attach here the output of the command:
  initctl list

[Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere)]

It happened to me after I manually restarted unity because it had crashed.

I have not yet launched unity-panel-service, here are the logs asked above:

$ initctl list
avahi-daemon start/running, process 823
mountnfs-bootclean.sh start/running
nmbd start/running, process 1828
tty4 start/running, process 922
whoopsie start/running, process 1000
winbind start/running, process 1806
upstart-udev-bridge start/running, process 7608
rsyslog start/running, process 23747
udev start/running, process 7611
avahi-cups-reload stop/waiting
mountall-net stop/waiting
passwd stop/waiting
rc stop/waiting
startpar-bridge stop/waiting
ureadahead-other stop/waiting
smbd start/running, process 689
tty5 start/running, process 926
irqbalance start/running, process 24746
systemd-logind start/running, process 7685
apport start/running
console-setup stop/waiting
gpu-manager stop/waiting
hwclock-save stop/waiting
plymouth-log stop/waiting
modemmanager start/running, process 753
mountall.sh start/running
failsafe stop/waiting
rfkill-store stop/waiting
atd start/running, process 996
dbus start/running, process 722
resolvconf start/running
failsafe-x stop/waiting
mounted-var stop/waiting
nvidia-prime stop/waiting
plymouth-shutdown stop/waiting
plymouth stop/waiting
udev-fallback-graphics stop/waiting
usb-modeswitch-upstart stop/waiting
checkroot.sh start/running
network-manager start/running, process 865
nvidia-persistenced start/running, process 1674
control-alt-delete stop/waiting
hwclock stop/waiting
mounted-proc stop/waiting
cups-browsed start/running, process 1133
alsa-store stop/waiting
setvtrgb stop/waiting
shutdown stop/waiting
cron start/running, process 995
mountkernfs.sh start/running
alsa-restore stop/waiting
gdm stop/waiting
mountall stop/waiting
mounted-debugfs stop/waiting
lightdm stop/waiting
binfmt-support start/running
console stop/waiting
mounted-run stop/waiting
acpid start/running, process 1031
bluetooth start/running, process 762
checkfs.sh start/running
checkroot-bootclean.sh start/running
mountnfs.sh start/running
ufw start/running
kmod stop/waiting
plymouth-stop stop/waiting
rcS stop/waiting
reload-smbd stop/waiting
wait-for-state stop/waiting
bootmisc.sh start/running
flush-early-job-log stop/waiting
friendly-recovery stop/waiting
rc-sysinit stop/waiting
samba-ad-dc stop/waiting
upstart-socket-bridge start/running, process 23464
cups start/running, process 7768
pulseaudio stop/waiting
mountdevsubfs.sh start/running
tty2 start/running, process 933
upstart-file-bridge start/running, process 23465
anacron stop/waiting
udevtrigger stop/waiting
mtab.sh start/running
tty3 start/running, process 934
container-detect stop/waiting
mounted-dev stop/waiting
udev-finish stop/waiting
alsa-state stop/waiting
hostname stop/waiting
mountall-reboot stop/waiting
network-interface (vboxnet0) start/running
network-interface (lo) start/running
network-interface (eth0) start/running
tty1 start/running, process 1338
mountall-shell stop/waiting
mounted-tmp stop/waiting
plymouth-ready stop/waiting
plymouth-splash stop/waiting
plymouth-upstart-bridge stop/waiting
udevmonitor stop/waiting
mountall-bootclean.sh start/running
network-interface-security (network-manager) start...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.