Missing kde taskbar

[Chris Halls]

Hi

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 22:01, Rafa wrote:
> Now the KDE taskbar and K menu are missing.  The application panel is
> there (with the shortcuts to firefox and terminal window) but nothing
> else.  I can access the properties page and make changes to it, but
> nothing is shown.

Does the file /etc/kderc exist on your system?  I had a similar problem caused 
by that.

> I read in the known problems that "kdeaddons" are not yet available.
> Not having much experience in KDE I can't tell if this is the problem
> or what (I do see several libhal errors in the .xsessionerrors file
> but that might be because my soundcard is kind of toasted).

I don't think those will be related to your main problem.

> Also, during setup, timezone was not set correctly (I wanted to choose
> "America/Panama" but only "America/" came up in /etc/timezone) but
> this might be an hoary issue and not Kubuntu specific.

That's an installer issue and not kubuntu specific.

Thanks
Chris