10.04 successfull horror story

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/05/10 15:33, Ian Coetzee wrote:
> Good day to you all
>
> Just a quick jot-down of my thoughts.
>
> Since the whole list at the moment is talking about what is wrong in
> 10.04 I want you all to know that I atempted an upgrade from 9.10 ->
> 10.04 (*shudder*).
>
> The whole thing started becuase I lost my menu bars(?) and thought that
> 10.04 might fix it. I started the upgrade via SSH shell from far away
> (work). When I got home I took a look at what happend.
>    
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> *Unfortunately it did not fix my menu bar problem I will create a new
> thread to discuss that one.
>    
I have a note here which I followed when I had a similar problem to you. 
Do this:

in a terminal, killall -l gnome-panel

then CTRL-ALT-F1, login and do

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd

after which do CTRL-ALT-F7 and you will be back at the Desktop.


The above will wipe clean the top and bottom panels and bring them back 
to the default setting. You will now have to repopulate/configure them 
with whatever you had in them before you had this problem.

BC

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