[lucid] update-notifier 99 breaks ubuntu-desktop

[Tom H]

>> > update-notifier-common removes ubuntu-desktop and update-notifier -
>> > result is a desktop background with no panels. Mouse works,
>> > Alt-CTRL-F1-6 works, but nothing else (including booting into failsafe
>> > mode & attempting to reinstall ubuntu-desktop results in:

>> May have found the appropriate bug report:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdbs/+bug/542343
>> [gnome-panel will not autostart on lucid]

> After updating last night, I'm having the same problem. Sony VAIO W Series
> w/ 2GB RAM.

Had you been looking at your Terminal output (not blaming you/accusing
you/...), you would have wondered, like me, what a reboot would lead
to given the errors that were being displayed (you can see them in
/var/log/apt/term.log). Since this is alpha/beta, I just rebooted and
...

Anyway, the NoOp posted a link to a bug report that clarified the
problem and gave a solution.

/usr/share/applications/gnome-panel.desktop
is beginning with
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-panel-2.0
instead of
[Desktop Entry]
and the fix is to move
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-panel-2.0
to the end of the file.

Furthermore, I think that an update that fixes
/usr/share/applications/gnome-panel.desktop
has now been released.