totally empty panels after fresh default install from alternate CD

[Josef Wolf]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

After a fresh install of 10.04 from alternate CD, both panels are totally empty, giving me no chance to launch any program. Adding applets to the panels don't work also. Tried to reinstall several times, with no avail. This is not related to bug #7500, since I do not get the error message from #7500 and deleting the gnome configuration don't help also.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 15 19:53:33 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel

[Josef Wolf (jw-raven)]

This is the .xsession.errors file after first login with broken panels

[Josef Wolf (jw-raven)]

Runnung

  gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel ; pkill gnome-panel

as suggested by NoOp on the ubuntu-users list gives me a working panel

[Josef Wolf (jw-raven)]

This is a diff of the home directory from before and after running the commands mentioned in the previous comment.

[Casper Aleva (tonus)]

Are you using a Matrox video card? Please attach the output of lspci -v if you're not sure. This bug is probably a duplicate of bug #572550.

[Josef Wolf (jw-raven)]

There's a matrox mga g400/450 in this box. So it really looks like a duplicate.
Sorry that I did not realize it as a duplicate in the first place.