GNOME Panel Keeps Removing Shutdown Menu

[Lonnie Lee Best]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

See attachment.

Running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 64bit RC (Fully updated as of 05-04-2009).

My Gnome panel keeps on removing the "shutdown menu" on the far right.

Deleting this folder:
/home/lonnie/.gnome2/panel2.d

brings it back after reboot, but this is the 2nd time I've had to do this.

I really think the System menu should still also offer shutdown options (there too) as it did in Ubuntu 7.04.

[Dmitry Andreychuk (and-dmitry)]

In my case the shutdown menu button isn't fully removed - I see left half of the button, and the right one is hidden by a blank panel, just like the last letter of your username on the screenshot. But I suppose it's the same issue - the button is not fully hidden because I've got a shorter username. I'll post a screenshot when I encounter this problem again.
Changing theme helps. Btw I had this with Ambiance and Radiance.
Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop amd64.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

isn't this and all the others related the same as bug 439448 ?

[Dmitry Andreychuk (and-dmitry)]

I've read the discussion of bug 439448 and looked through it's duplicates. The issue I've encountered is definitely the same as described in this comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/439448/comments/56 and following bugs:
bug 544048
bug 564849
bug 570664
bug 570959

However, most comments from bug 439448 describe the situation as one icon missing and a duplicate of another icon is in it's place. Maybe there are two different bugs?

Btw, I've upgraded from karmic - never had this problem with it (used Human theme).

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

Additional information:

It might be helpful to mention, that I *upgraded* from 9.10 to "install" 10.04. You see, perhaps this is an upgrade issue. Is anyone experiencing this behaviour on a fresh install?

Even in the past, it seems every time I've upgraded to a newer release of Ubuntu, the gnome-panel gets screwed up in some way to where I have to delete the "/home/lonnie/.gconf/apps/panel" folder and reboot (which creates a new default gnome panel).

Deleting this folder resolves the issue for maybe a reboot or two (without losing any quick-launchers or panel-additions):
/home/username/.gnome2/panel2.d

However, ultimately, to prevent the problem from coming back, I've had to delete this folder and reboot:
/home/username/.gconf/apps/panel

This works, but I wouldn't consider it a "fix", because in doing this, the user loses all "previously created" quick-launchers and panel-additions, and are left with at clean default gnome-panel.

Again, I think this issue only happens after an upgrade, but this should be confirmed.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I spoke too soon in the comment above!

It turns out that deleting the "/home/username/.gconf/apps/panel" folder didn't prevent the bug from coming back. So you are better off just deleting the "/home/username/.gnome2/panel2.d" folder instead, because both are only temporary, yet the later preserves your quick-launchers and panel-additions.

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

My laptop froze due to a power surge today. When I hard rebooted it, the panel came up looking like this (see attachment).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for the bug report this particular bug has already been reported but feel free to report any other bugs you may find/.