Logging into Unity from KDM - no panel, no "dock"

[Alan Jenkins]

Logging into Unity from GDM is fine. But if I log in from KDM (the KDE login manager), I don't have either the panel at the top of the screen, or the dock at the left hand side, so I can't even log out!

(Ok, I can use ctrl+alt+del to get a shutdown dialog, or alt+prtsc+K to kill the session and get back to KDM, but it's not a very good situation any way you look at it).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-session 2.32.1-0ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 27 10:18:58 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-19 (7 days ago)

[Alan Jenkins (aj504)]

For comparison, here's what a successful login looks like in .xsession-errors - it seems to be a lot longer :-).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Beren Erchamion (erchamion)]

ctr+alt+t opens terminal and then you can do $gnome-session-quit to log out. however, you get no panel and no dock

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry that this bug report could not be resolved before the Ubuntu version expired. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since then, and the bug may have been fixed. If you still have the problem with a current version of Ubuntu, please reopen this report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]