panel and menubar disappeared on checking autohide and never comes back

[raznish]

Binary package hint: yelp

my menubar was at the bottom and in properties of panel i tick autohide after that panel disappeared and when i move cursor to bottom menubar doesnot come back. I checked by restarting my system as well but no luck.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 20 00:29:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1345): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1345): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1447): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1470): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Francisco (fxcerda)]

I am using Ubuntu Lucid's version. I cannot gie more information because I cannot access the sysem menu. Sorry.

[nimu (n-mussin)]

To reproduce this bug, simply make one of the two panels auto-hide. If you are still able to access the panel, you should also uncheck the "expand" option. I'm not sure, if the name of this option is "expand" and I cannot check it up anymore, because I just made my panel auto-hide and now I'm lost until I reset the panel options ;)

It must be a nightmare for new ubuntu users to lose all control by simply making the main panel disappear. This should be fixed soon.

I'm using a Dell Mini 10v with UNE 10.04 in desktop mode (not the clutter interface).

[Cornelius Puschmann (puschmann)]

Also encountered this problem and had to use ALT+F1 to make the main menu bar appear long enough to allow me to uncheck the "auto-hide" option. Luckily I use Docky and knew how to launch programs without the menu bar -- for novice users this is indeed a very problematic bug.

[nimu (n-mussin)]

this bug seems to be gone...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-panel (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Sean DS (se4n-1)]

I still have this problem in maverick, it is reproducible how can I obtain the information needed for debugging?