Xorg - no taskbar/dock/panel - HOARY

[Ian Hogben]

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Hello, list,

I have had a problem with my ubuntu config for a couple weeks, but I
thought that it was my fault for playing with NTFS write support.  I
removed all the extra cruft that I installed before things went sour,
and still no juice. I'm stuck. Incidentally, NTFS-rw is still not
happening, so if anyone has hints on that... ;-)

When I log in to the desktop, I don't have any taskbar/dock/panel or
whatever it is called. Just a blank desktop background. The only thing I
can do at all is to right-click on the desktop and open a terminal, and
from there manually type in the command-line args for whatever apps I
want. It doesn't help much with things like Azureus and Apollon and Gaim
that all stay in the taskbar. :-/

I have hunted around a bit, and the best clue I can find is in
~/.xsession-errors. The last lines are get are pasted below. Does anyone
know where I would go next to investigate?

- -Ian.

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
":0" "ian"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/hogbender:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8064
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1

(nautilus:8171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so'
(/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory)

(nautilus:8171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module
`/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so'
(/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libmapping.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory)
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
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