My apologies, this is not a bug with ubuntu but with my brain. I had a problem with gnome a couple years ago and forgot the fix was to (re)move the directory $HOME/.gnome2. In this case, I renamed it. When I logged in to gnome everything returned to normal. I suspected it wasn't a bug since I didn't see other people having any symptoms I was having.
My apologies, this is not a bug with ubuntu but with my brain. I had a problem with gnome a couple years ago and forgot the fix was to (re)move the directory $HOME/.gnome2. In this case, I renamed it. When I logged in to gnome everything returned to normal. I suspected it wasn't a bug since I didn't see other people having any symptoms I was having.