one day you wake up... and everything's gone!

[Arjan Geven]

On 6/9/05, Michaël Van Dorpe <michael.vandorpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello! I'm e-mailing this from Internet Explorer in Windows XP... yes,
> indeed, I believe something has gone wrong.
> 
> I started my computer this morning, with Ubuntu 5.04, gave my username
> and password, the splash screen came up, with the log on sound, and
> then I had a brown background (which is not my standard background), I
> could see the top and the bottom panel, without any applets on them,
> no clock or anything, and also a gdesklet on my desktop loaded just
> fine.
> 
> Yesterday, I updated the linux-headers, as asked by the update
> notifier. Also, last week or so, I changed to the 686 image and
> removed the previous image. 

Hrm, sounds familiar. I performed a similar operation (installed a k7
kernel-image to see if performance would be better). Next day, the
same as you, Ubuntu stops at showing two empty panels. I still had the
386-image installed, so started using that again. If anyone has a
solution, I'd also be happy to see it :).