Comment 127 for bug 349519

@sachin:
This is very strange. I had printed up your suggestions, and was about to follow the directions. Guess what?
I had NO NEED to do so.

NOTE: Machine: ASUS EEE 1000 PC

1) I had re-installed the [ASUS] Xandros distro, after reading your post, I did a CLEAN install of Jaunty 9.40 NBR from my SD card.
2) Once the system initially booted, I went to my system preferences and switched to desktop mode.
3) Select "REBOOT" and stepped away from the machine to read the rest of my emails on my Macintosh.

To my surprise I went back to the Asus and found that I had the standard desktop.

To VERIFY, I selected reboot again. sat and *watched* the machine, and it came up again _as it should_: NO MISSING PANELS or menus.

      *** I had NO NEED to follow your workaround. ***

INSTALL METHOD: Manual,
/dev/sda partitioned as follows: 7 Gb [ext3] mount point / , swap at end of partition 1 Gb
/dev/ sdb 32 Gb [ext3] mount point /home

/REM: This was done before installing any additional applications, or downloading the latest updates.
Code on the machine is the default from the NBR image file as provided from Ubuntu.

/ REM: I *know* that I had previously installed / re-installed the 9.10 NBR a couple of times, and each time I was able to switch desktop modes without Bug 349519 ever rearing its ugly head on my Asus.

/REM: The only difference in past installs was that _THIS TIME_ I had initially installed Jaunty 9.10 NBR _without_ a SWAP partition.

Hence:
/dev/sda [ext3] mount point /
/dev/sdb [ext3] mount point /home

        !!! This was the only (and first) time that I encountered Bug 349519 on my Asus EEE 1000 PC. !!!
Previous installs never exhibited this problem, even after constant upgrades from the update channel, or installation of third party applications ... including the bug fix for Pidgin (bug: not connecting to Yahoo).