The gnome panels don't appear when login

[Lilian ROBERT]

When I start my computer, and then log in my feisty, the gnome panels don't always appear.

Sometimes they appear, sometimes only one appear (sometimes the top, sometimes the bottom) and sometimes none appear.

I can work around by restarting X (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE) but sometime that doesn't work and sometime an error tells me "gnome-panel is already loaded"...

I heard about at least one person experiencing the same issue (ubuntu-fr forum).

[Chris Burgan (cburgan)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This bug was filed without a package as such I am move it under gnome-panel.

[Lilian ROBERT (lilian-robert)]

Thank you. Let me know if I could give you any additionnal information.

Lilian

On 4/24/07, Chris Burgan <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better.
>
> This bug was filed without a package as such I am move it under gnome-
> panel.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => gnome-panel
>
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> The gnome panels don't appear when login
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109637
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[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

I can confirm this bug in Feisty.

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

One thing I've noticed is that it's only the default panels that don't always show up. My manually added panel always loads. Also, killall gnome-panel makes them load if they haven't loaded. However, I have to run nm-applet manually to get the networking applet to show up after I do that.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you use compiz? Do you have anything to .xsession-errors when you get the bug?

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

I discovered that the panels only disappear when beryl-manager is set to start up in System>Preferences>Sessions. However, it doesn't matter what window-manager is set to be used.

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

Never mind, beryl-manager doesn't have an effect. Just a coincidence.

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

This bug is pretty bad... it seems to be getting worse and worse. It used to only make some of my panels disappear, and not at every boot, but now all of my panels disappear every boot.
Also I've noticed that it only happens at the first login. If I log out and back in, the panels appear just fine.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have anything to .xsession-errors when that happens? Are you sure it has nothing to do with beryl? Can you try to uninstall it?

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

OK, now I feel stupid. It turns out it IS beryl. However, if I set beryl --replace --force-aiglx && emerald --replace to run on startup, i don't lose my panels. However, if I have beryl-manager (which does that all for me) set to run on startup, i do lose my panels. I've tested switching the window manager in beryl-manager to metacity, and I still lose my panels... so it's really beryl-manager, not beryl.

[Caleb (caleb-marcus)]

I don't have anything in .xsession-errors that looks suspicious, although I will attach it for you to look at to be sure, when I get back to my Ubuntu machine.

[Nescafe (werzios)]

another affected user here.
gnome-panels doesn't like beryl-manager
they are as dog and cat

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Beryl is replaced by Compiz Fusion, so has been removed from Gutsy.

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