user switcher thing has not appeared on panel

[Jack Leigh]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

The FUSA/whatever it is in Karmic does not appear at start-up, and has not done for the past two boots, but shows a blank space.
This gives no option for shutting down other than the terminal.
The network icon in the systray has also been replaced by the typing-break timer, which seems to correlate.
Also linked appears to be the fact that for a long time before the desktop appear, I just see the panels with an 'Unknown Window' in the bottom panel.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 19 23:11:51 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2383): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2383): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2492): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2478): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2474): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Does it work correctly in a guest session? Could you add your .xsession-errors to the bug?

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

Here is the correct Xsessionerrors, I think.
The stuff involving Tasque is new since this happened so you ignore that.
It only occurs sometimes. How can I check in a guest account if I can't do it through the menu?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is it still an issue for you with Ubuntu 10.04?