Disappearing menu panel Part 2

[mark]

Hi Charlie:

I followed your instructions as best I could. Below is what I was able 
to find out. I can't locate the gnome directory and there doesn't appear 
to be any gnome panel installed. How do I fix that? Thanks again Charlie.

mark at mark:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome panel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package gnome is not installed, so not removed
E: Couldn't find package panel

mark at mark:~$ cd .config
mark at mark:~/.config$ ls
compiz  gtk-2.0  tracker  user-dirs.dirs  user-dirs.locale
mark at mark:~/.config$ cd gnome
bash: cd: gnome: No such file or directory

mark at mark:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome panel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package panel

Mark


Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:59:51 -0500
> mark <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Charlie:
>>
>> Thank you for the information but my Alt+F2 doesn't work. I can't get
>> it to bring up any windows when I press Alt+F2. Is there another way
>> or a command line way? Thank you.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:59:16 -0500
>>> mark <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello:
>>>>
>>>> I did all the things you suggested but nothing seemed to work. I
>>>> was at my wits end due to all of my programs that I used were on
>>>> the top menu panel and I could no longer open any programs. I
>>>> finally had to reinstall and this time put my program shortcut
>>>> icons on my desktop instead of in the menu panel. After a couple
>>>> of times of restarting the computer, the menus are gone again! I
>>>> am able to get to the programs I use most frequently, but still
>>>> can't get to the menu options I need such as "system" to get to
>>>> the system preferences and what have you. The screen's original
>>>> resolution was set for 1280x800 which I didn't set, but the
>>>> computer did from the installation and so I left it that way. Is
>>>> there some way to fix this problem that keeps happening? It is
>>>> driving me crazy!!! Thank you again for all your help!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On 12/29/2008 04:17 PM, markfpyles wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi everyone:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a big problem. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome desktop) on
>>>>>> a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop and when I closed the computer down
>>>>>> everything was fine, but when I started the computer up the menu
>>>>>> panel at the top of my screen was gone and also my taskbar at the
>>>>>> bottom. All I am left with is a blank desktop. Is there a way to
>>>>>> get my menu at the top of my screen to work again? Please tell me
>>>>>> I don't have to re-install everything. Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> My _guess_ is that when you started back up the desktop defaulted
>>>>> to 800x600 resolution and the menus are still there but hidden
>>>>> because of the screen resolution.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alt-F2 (Alt key plus F2 key)
>>>>>   then enter
>>>>>     gnome-display-properties
>>>>> and see what the resolution is set at. See if yoiu can reset to
>>>>> 1024x768 or whatever your standard resoluton is. If that doesn't
>>>>> work, then try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alt-F2
>>>>>   then enter
>>>>>     gksu displayconfig-gtk
>>>>> and try resetting from there.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that doesn't work, then reboot and at the gdm login select
>>>>> "Session" and then "Failsafe GNOME" and login using that. That may
>>>>> get you back to a screen that shows the menus.
>>>>>
>>>>> And if all of those don't work, then reboot and at the grub menu,
>>>>> select the second kernel option for "Recovery". When that finishes
>>>>> booting select the xfix option. That will reset your xorg.conf to
>>>>> a default. When it finishes, select the 1st option to continue to
>>>>> boot normally.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> Just a guess here. Have you gone into your /home directory and
>>> deleted all the configuration files for gnome-panel? 
>>>
>>> Remove gnome-panel using Alt+F2, sudo apt-get remove --purge
>>> gnome-panel , then go to ~/.config/gnome/gnome-panel and delete the
>>> files. Then using Terminal (Alt+F2) add the panel back (sudo apt-get
>>> install gnome-panel)
>>>
>>> This will, of course, remove any additions to the panel, but may fix
>>> the problem.
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>>
>>>       
>
> The only thing Alt+F2 does is bring up a command line. If it doesn't
> work, type the commands on the command line or use a tty terminal
> (Ctrl+Alt+F2). 
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-panel
> go to ~/.config/gnome/gnome-panel and delete the files
> sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
>
> NOTE: you may have to do 
> killall -i gnome-panel
> before it will let you remove gnome-panel.
>
>
>   
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