system menu disappears

[Jeremy Bícha]

My system menu disappears (not sure if it's a crash) rather frequently. I was able to trigger this today by opening System Settings and clicking Appearance and simply changing the theme. The user menu still works. I end up having to reload Unity to bring the system menu back.

Apport doesn't appear to record a crash report for this.

WORKAROUND
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Press Alt+F2
Enter unity

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-session 0.3.4.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 7 23:55:47 2011
SourcePackage: indicator-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Are you running unity or unity-2d ?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Unity. But obstinately, the system menu now is not crashing/disappearing when I change the theme now after a reboot so I guess we'll need to do more work to figure out when this happens.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[nick rundy (nrundy)]

I just noticed by Session-Indicator is gone.

I booted into 11.10 and the Session-Indicator was present. I started surfing the web and playing some music and at some point noticed the Session-indicator was no longer present. The indicator-icon is simply gone.

[dino99 (9d9)]

still get this issue with the latest Oneiric i386 b2
and wonder if this is related with an other issue: each time i log as gnome-classic i get first the "nautilus" panel loaded, then the expected panel appear over it (can see the nautilus panel underneath (by transparence with some themes)

[dino99 (9d9)]

reinstalling all the Oneiric genuine related "session" packages dont make the menu reapearing, so i need to install the "logout" & "shutdown" old applets