Upper and lower bars sporadically disappear after reboot and have to be restored by command line

[kubuntu-user]

The upper and lower bars of the Xfce desktop suddenly have vanished after rebooting.

I was able to restore them by
- pressing ALT+F2
- entering "xfce4-panel &"

(Bug found on Xubuntu Jaunty.)

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in xfce4-panel.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Also please note that it is considered rude behaviour to confirm your own bugs so please don't do that. I'll reset the status to New.

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Nice username :P

Are you sure the two issues are related? Have you experienced this multiple times? It is a known issue that the panels disappear [1], but has never been linked to shutting down with that command.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels

[kubuntu-user (kubuntu-user2)]

> Nice username :P

Thanks. But this time I am a xubuntu-user. :-)

> Are you sure the two issues are related? Have you experienced this multiple times?

No. I just have tried it and was unable to reproduce it. Sorry this was my mistake.
(I have misunderstood a forum comment about this topic when I was searching for a solution to restore the bars.)

The bug seems to occur sporadic. Is there already a valid bug report filed?

If yes we should set this one to "Invalid".

[Vincent (vinnl)]

I can't see another confirmed bug report about this so I'm going to mark this as confirmed and see what the devs say, as I don't know what to do with it either.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Perhaps a duplicate of bug 53897 ?

[kubuntu-user (kubuntu-user2)]

> Perhaps a duplicate of bug 53897?

Not sure. The user in bug 53897 says "I must launch "xfce4-panel" every time I start Xubuntu."

But I only had to enter this command once.

[Vincent (vinnl)]

It could be that the other user somehow saved his session with his panels disappeared but didn't save it every time he restored the panels. Unfortunately the bug is from 2006 so I don't think asking is going to provide the answer, so I'm still not sure what to do here.

[kubuntu-user (kubuntu-user2)]

The bug has appeared again some days ago. The bug seems to have "come over night". I had normally shutdown the system and the next day after booting the panels were missing. Entering "xfce4-panel &" has restored the panels again.

[kubuntu-user (kubuntu-user2)]

And again. Today I have shut down and started the computer later today. Bars have vanished.

Why is it so difficult to fix the bug by ensuring that the the bars are already loaded?

[kubuntu-user (kubuntu-user2)]

already -> always