Date and time do not show up on indicator panel

[intuiter]

Date-time indicator as well as a few other indicators (e.g. cpufreq, weather) do not show up on my indicator panel even though they are installed in my system.

This happened for the first time after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. It used to show up normaly before.

Other indicators (e.g. keyboard, sound, multiload) show up normaly.

I have tried different things like uninstalling and re-installing the missing indicators but no luck.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: indicator-datetime 13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 7 17:16:23 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-01-13 (1210 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-30 (6 days ago)

[intuiter (vmetsis)]

Nobody else affected by this?

[Robert Handsfield (r-handsfield)]

I'm affected by this. System settings > Time & Date > Clock options are available and seem to function normally. I've tried the following solutions; none have restored my clock to the unity panel.

1)
sudo apt-get install --reinstall indicator-datetime;
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata;
killall unity-panel-service;

2)
sudo restart lightdm;

3)
initctl restart indicator-datetime;
killall unity-panel-service;

4)
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade;
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-control-center;
killall unity-panel-service;
sudo restart lightdm;

5)
restarting the machine after (1-4)

System Details
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Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Desktop Environment: Unity
Platform: x86_64
Kernel: 3.13.0-29-generic
Proprietary Drivers: Video Driver for AMD graphics accelerators from fglrx-updates (proprietary)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6770
Motherboard: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8Z68-V LX
Bios: American Megatrends Inc. version 4105

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Kyler Laird (kylerlaird)]

This has been annoying me since I reinstalled my laptop following a disk failure recently. I finally ran across the advice to run "dconf reset -f /com/canonical/indicator/datetime/". Voila! The clock reappeared.

Then I changed the settings to add the day of week. The clock disappeared. Same thing if I add date & month. I can repeatedly break/fix the clock simply by checking/unchecking these options. The indicator-datetime-service process continues to run and does not need to be restarted or reinitialized.

[Anirban Ghosh (anirban-ninja)]

This bug affects me in Ubuntu 14.10.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect <bug #>

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Robert Handsfield (r-handsfield)]

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-15 (680 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: indicator-datetime 13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Tags: third-party-packages trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm audio cdrom debian-tor dip libvirtd lpadmin memsql plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare sudo video
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[Robert Handsfield (r-handsfield)]

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[Robert Handsfield (r-handsfield)]

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[intuiter (vmetsis)]

The only way I could solve the problem is by doing a fresh install of the OS.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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