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[Peter-and-Crazybear <crazybear@xxxxxxxx>]

On 17/10/14 08:09, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
> Not sure if there is easy way to repair your sistem. I would suggest to
> try clean install.
>
> You have log file full of warnings about missing programs. You have put
> many launchers on panel, bet programs does not exist for them anymore.
> This is what I see from log messages.
>
> You say that clicking on panel makes it crash/disappear. It could crash
> because panel fails to find program you try to launch. If so this is
> definetly bug as panel should not crash in such cases (I have no time to
> verify this).
>
> If you run programs from terminal and then close terminal it won't close
> only terminal, it will close all other programs you launched from
> terminal. Add ' &' at the end of programs names when you launch
> applications - 'gnome-panel --replace &' . And if you want close
> terminal don't do it by clicking close button but type 'exit' command in
> terminal.
>
> You can see your username in terminal.
>
None of the launchers/programs I tried to launch are the ones now 
missing [they are not displayed]. The are ones I have successfully used 
only a few days before today. My panels are all black now and not pretty 
- why did you want me to change them and can they be changed back to 
colored and partly transparent? You are correct about using exit rather 
than the close button. But I don't want to launch programs from 
terminal, but from launchers on a panel. Is there not a way to just 
re-install the likely problematic packages, such as gnome-panel and a 
few related? On the username - yes it shows in terminal, but I had my 
old username and created another, and can enter into 14.04 using either 
- but I think they may be the same 'user' with two different names - but 
not sure. They share the same password and seem to be identical - except 
for the name.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380095

Title:
  Gnome Fallback[s] don't work in 14.04. Work once ONLY if reinstalled

Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While the computer is saying its a problem with gnome-panel, I keep
  re-installing gnome-session-fallback. It will work [in either flavor
  of fallback (no idea why there are now two!) ONE TIME - but the next
  time I get a screen with NO panels and NO keyboard shortcuts are
  recognized (so I can't even get a terminal). All I can do is hard
  shut-down of computer; restart into gnome or unity or some others
  (which I do NOT like to use!). I have done this MANY times now. It
  never stays 'done'. Am going back to my  copy ov 12.04 until someone
  can tell me why or how to make one of the fallbacks (hopefully both)
  work every time I sign in to 14.04. Thank you. Anyone else having
  similar problems? The only other thing I can think of is that I
  upgraded from 12.04 in which fallback operated just fine and was
  stable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-session-fallback 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Oct 11 15:50:02 2014
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.run-dialog' b'show-program-list' b'true'
   b'org.gnome.gnome-panel.run-dialog' b'history' b'[\'gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list\', "OED.EXE \'/home/peter-and-crazybear/Wine/(OED)/Bin/oedcd_v3.exe\'", \'warrick/\', \'warrick.pl\', \'warrick/\', \'skype\', \'env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 skype \', \'/usr/bin/xsensors\', \'alacarte\', \'gconf-editor\', \'nautilus -q\', \'xkill\', \'warrick/\']'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-02 (312 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-28 (13 days ago)

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