Gnome panels do not display
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
Ubuntu 10.04 updated as of 2010-06-04.
Problem: The Gnome top and bottom panels do not display after bootup.
This system is set up for running the MythTV front-end, and so display is on the TV Out port of an Nvidia GEForce4 MX 4000. The display is a standard (not HD) TV with 640x480 specified in xorg.conf. The problem also happens with this resolution set to 800x600 or 1024x768. I have also seen the problem with these resolutions on a standard monitor, and it seemed to disappear at 1280x1024 and higher.
This system is also configured for automatic login.
I can work around this by opening a terminal window (Crtl-Alt-T) and typing either "killall gnome-session" or "gnome-session --replace &". Another method is to create a startup task that spawns another process which in turn sleeps for 20 seconds and then runs one of the above commands. So this seems to be some sort of race condition.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 4 09:28:29 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
XsessionErrors: (polkit-
This might be a duplicate of bug #572550. Taking a tip from comments there, I removed compiz and compiz-core, and the problem went away.