Gnome upper panel not responding...???

[NoOp]

On 11/14/2009 04:17 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 11/14/2009 03:51 PM, Larry Shields wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2009 07:48 AM, Larry Shields wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
>>>>     
>>> ...
>>>   
>>>>> Maybe you wanna do a 'yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"' and
>>>>> then a "yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"'?
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>> /*Well thank you very much for telling me how to fix the problem 
>>>> here...I rebooted the system twice, and the panel apps to in fact show 
>>>> up each time...So where did you come up with that fix...??
>>>>
>>>> I really appreciate it thanks...
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Interesting... so you had yum installed and the above worked eh?
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> /*Hi NoOp,
>> 
>> Yes it worked just fine, and have not had a problem with it at all...I 
>> had asked the fellow, where did he get that info from, but as of yet 
>> I've heard nothing back yet...
>> 
>> So yes it does work...
> 
> *Very* interesting...
> 
> 

and I wonder if:

$ sudo apt-get remove gnome-desktop-environment
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

would have accomplished the same?