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tinhtruong

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Registered: 2008-12-18

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[SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Hello everyone,
After I update (pacman -Syu) my system to the latest Gnome today (I believe is gnome 2.32), the gnome panel is disappeared on my desktop and I don't know how to add a new one.
Does anyone experience this also?
Thanks in advance for you help
Tinh

Last edited by tinhtruong (2010-10-08 14:22:50)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Did you restart your machine?

Nice to see someone from Vietnam here

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tinhtruong

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Restart does not help
I don't use any composite window manager, just plain metacity of Gnome.
When I run the gnome-panel from the terminal here is the output:

[tinh@tinh-laptop ~]$ gnome-panel 
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

Is there any hint for me to tinkering around?
Many thanks

Tinh

Last edited by tinhtruong (2010-10-08 03:33:47)

smartboyathome

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Same problem here. It crashes on login, and gets restarted constantly outputting errors. Here is what I was able to get using multiple x sessions and gnome-terminal. http://pastebin.com/XSr6dtfb Hopefully it helps.

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Try creating a new user and seeing if it works fine.

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samyazza

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From: Cracow, Poland

Registered: 2010-01-09

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

I had this same issue, but I reinstalled the panel and it works fine now. DockbarX  crashes though each time I hover my mouse on it. Any ideas how to fix that?

tinhtruong

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Registered: 2008-12-18

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

smartboyathome described the problem correctly . It constantly restarted after I logged in.
Reinstall did not help here. Can you give some more details about how you have reinstalled the gnome-panel, samyazza?
I just did a:

pacman -S gnome-panel

And then restart, but the problem is still remained

Last edited by tinhtruong (2010-10-08 13:56:31)

tinhtruong

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

Try creating a new user and seeing if it works fine.

I created a new user, the gnome-panel works fine! I guess there is something wrong with the new gnome-panel package with my old settings of its previous version! Is there any way just to delete the setting of gnome-panel and not the whole Gnome setting?

Thanks

tinhtruong

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

OK, I kinda solved the problem!
Just rename the /home/<user>/.gconf/apps/panel to panel.bk to force gnome to create new settings. The outcome is my gnome panel setting wiped out. But I can keep other gnome settings at least!
Hope it will help someone in my situation one day ago

Last edited by tinhtruong (2010-10-08 14:23:53)

tinhtruong

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

I found an interesting thing while I'm on the way re-create my gnome panel settings, it's the 'talika' gnome applet that cause the problem! Will report the issue upstream.

smartboyathome

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

tintruong is right, removing talika restores the panel to a working state.

Metallion

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Re: [SOLVED]Gnome panel disappear after updating to the latest Gnome today

I might add that I've had the same problem but in my case Quick Lounge Applet was the culprit.