Hoary gnome-panel boken

[Matt Philmon]

> I've encountered the same problem. Yesterday I fixed it by booting
with 
> the 2.6.8 kernel instead of 2.6.9. Funny thing is, I've had 2.6.9 
> running without problem before.
> 
> My background always loads, and sometimes my lower panel load fine,
but 
> newer the top one.
> 
> /Rune

I don't know that I've really fixed anything... Also before I headed
into work this morning I ran an update with apt-get and there were TONS
of updated packages that weren't there when I went to bed last night,
including a new gnome-panel so this might be useless.

If it's not, I somehow got menu support back last night by doing the
following:
1) Ctrl Alt F2 to get out of Gnome.
2) I killed GDM.
3) I ran an update just to make sure.
4) then: "sudo apt-get install gnome-panel ubuntu-desktop ubunto-base
--reinstall" I'm not sure whether ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-base needed
this but as I don't know exactly what got me going again...
5) sudo init 6
6) On the graphical login screen I chose "Session" and changed the login
to the "Safe Gnome" or whatever it's called... It's like safemode for
Windows I guess.
7) I had all my menus.. Again not sure if this was necessary but it's
the steps I tried. Logged out.
8) Logged into regular session (default) which is Gnome.
9) Everything (most) is back in place (no Crossover directories and a
couple programs I installed aren't showing up in Games anymore). I was
still, however, missing my Logout option.
10) I added a Launcher to my top bar by right-clicking, etc. and chose
Logout which put the icon up there. I used it to logout.
11) Logged back in, and now the Logout option is where it should be in
the menu system.

I hope that helps someone.

Matt