HELP !!! No more task-bare and menu bare

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Sam Przyswa wrote:
> Carl Friis-Hansen a écrit :
>> Sam Przyswa wrote:
>>   
>>> Carl Friis-Hansen a écrit :
>>>     
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Sam Przyswa wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After trying to open my calendar the menu-bare and the task-bare was gone !
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to restore my desktop ? - I have 8 days backups, what 
>>>>>> files/directories to restore ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At this time I have to login as root.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sam.
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>           
>>>> Login as yourself.
>>>>
>>>> Press Alt-F2
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> I tried but that's don't work, nothing happens !?
>>>     
>> I am very surprised that Alt-F2 doesn't work. This is bad. Then I assume 
>> that Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't work either. However, if it does, then just 
>> execute the commands from there.  
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-Fx open a console in text mode but what else ? - On my root 
> account I can open gnome-terminal too.

then you login and execute the one or two command as your Alt-F2 thingy 
didn't work. Please inform us what error messages you get.

Have you lokked at your "tail /var/log/messages" to see if you can get 
some relevant info from there?

> 
> 
>> If you cannot get a terminal in any 
>> way, then I would personally restore all the "/home/you/.*" files from 
>> your backup in that you restore missing or different. You might want a 
>> second opinion on this restore thing though.
>>   
> 
> I restored all the .xxx dirs and ~/Desktop but nothing changed when I 
> log on my account. A full /home/me/.* backup take a lot on time, I have 
> lot of gigs of files stored on my /home account.

I would have waited a little with that.

> I use Ubuntu 8.04 and the problem come after running (buggy) Evolution 
> connecting to my Google Agenda as I do with Thunderbird, after I tried 
> to open the desktop calendar on top right the menu-bar and then the 
> menu-bar and task-bar disappear !?

You can choose not to restore last session when you login to your 
accout, that might also be an idea.

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