Gnome Panel dissappeared

[Koroush]

I turned on my computer today and the panels on the top and bottom of the screen are both gone. I have found a solution to this problem on the Ubuntu help forums, but cannot try it because it requires the use of a terminal. Since I do not have a launcher for the terminal on my desktop and the alt-f2 command no longer works without the panel. I have rebooted the system three times now, including soft and hard boots to no avail.

My computer is a Dell m1530, processor 2.4 ghz, memory 3gb, graphics card nvidia 512mb, I am running Hardy Heron 8.04. Please let me know if you require more information.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 17 10:48:21 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Old_Soldier (charles.davis)]

Have you tried right clicking the desktop and creating a launcher for gnome-terminal or gnome panel?

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at [WWW] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .