Fresh 10.04 Boots with Partial Panels

[JamesIsIn]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I have an old white box (server) which I installed with 10.04 LTS. At login, the panels come up rather borked. You can see a screen shot (and get more information) at this forum post:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1490250

I can sort of fix them by changing themes (from any to any), but regardless of which theme is in place at logout/reboot the problem returns at login.

This effects all user accounts (so I can probably create user accounts ad naseum to assist in troubleshooting).

Running this fixes until reboot:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

While running this fixes indefinitely:

pkill gnome-panel

All of these workarounds function on a per user basis.

Let me know if I can provide more data.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 25 17:11:50 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2682): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (Do:2694): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.
 (gnome-appearance-properties:3044): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_sync: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
 (gnome-appearance-properties:3044): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_sync: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed

[JamesIsIn (k-launchpad-soundunreason-com)]

Looks like the pkill gnome-panel by itself only fixed the problem indefinitely for the build account. The subsequent user account which I created breaks with every reboot (or logout/login). I tested making the other user account a priv'd account, but this made no difference.

[Erik Meitner (e.meitner)]

Does the affected system have multiple monitors?

[JamesIsIn (k-launchpad-soundunreason-com)]

No, but the video card is dual monitor capable. It has two VGA ports.

[Simon Kjellberg (simonkberg)]

This bug is affecting me as well, i've tried reinstalling Ubuntu Notebook 3 times already.

Seems to be affecting other users also: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491135

Let me know what additional details i can provide.

[Casper Aleva (tonus)]

Can you attach the output of lspci -v? This may be a duplicate of bug #572550.

[Simon Kjellberg (simonkberg)]

Doesn't look like it's the same bug as linked to above, at least not in my case. Can also mention that the solution provided in the other post (uninstalling compiz and compiz-core - i didn't even have them installed in the first place) doesn't work for me. neither does running 'pkill gnome-panels', at least not every time and after a restart it's all broken again.

lspci -v output attached. please let me know any commands i can output to attach additional information (i'm a newbie).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

please attach your ~/.xsession-errors file to the report, it might contain the information regarding those not starting panels. And please attach screenshots to the reports instead to the forums, those are not used for bug tracking.

[JamesIsIn (k-launchpad-soundunreason-com)]

Here is a text document with the output from lspci -v (using the unpriv'd user account); the ouput is divided into output with broken panels and output with (temporarily) fixed panels.

[JamesIsIn (k-launchpad-soundunreason-com)]

Here is my xsession-errors file (again from the unpriv'd user account).

[Casper Aleva (tonus)]

Marking this bug a duplicate of bug #572550.

magijo, looks like you have a different problem/bug, since your problem is not related to Matrox graphics and mentioned workarounds don't apply to your problem as you said.