Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher

[Grizzly]

05 September 2018  at 9:24, Colin Law wrote:
Re: Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher (at least in part)

>On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 09:14, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>> Hi

>> Clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.4, worked fine, then update & dist-upgrade (to
>> 16.04.5)

>> Now all I have is wallpaper (background) Dash/Panel/Launcher missing, only
>> thing that shows (sometimes) is the update to 18.04.1 dialogue, then only for a
>> fraction of a second, it goes away before I can click anything, it will come
>> back lower on screen a bit later, and go again as quickly

>> I have tried all the normal solutions I can find, with no success

>I presume it is ok until you try to login (since you have not said otherwise.
>Have you tried logging in as a different user?

It is set to auto_login, but I will try setting to manual (via 
Advanced-Recover-Resume?) and see where that takes me

Not sure if I can do it from a "Ctrl+Shif+F1" terminal, as I seem to get many 
"Cant connect to xxx" from there when trying to edit any file (e.g. Grub)