@Nick: where your issue occurs, can you please try in a terminal ps aux | grep gnome-panel to see if gnome-panel is running?
@Pierre: I guess your issue is quite different, can you please open a new bug?
@Nick: where your issue occurs, can you please try in a terminal ps aux | grep gnome-panel to see if gnome-panel is running?
@Pierre: I guess your issue is quite different, can you please open a new bug?