Gnome-Panel fails to load on startup sometimes

It happens to me sometimes.

I usually use an application called Synapse for launching programs and finding files. Your friend can install it from the terminal with "sudo apt-get install synapse".

When his computer starts up without gnome-panel, he can launch Synapse with Ctrl+Space. Type in "terminal" to open the terminal.

When the terminal is open, enter "gnome-panel" and hit Enter. That should start the gnome-panel. Edit: someone on this board told us how to do this part.

Others may have a simpler solution.

I had that, a lot. So I installed the Cinnamon desktop and now all is as it should be.

This happens to me quite often. I right click on the desktop and choose "Open in Terminal" then type gnome-panel and close the terminal.

On 22/09/13 23:36, gaming4jc2 wrote:
> This sounds like a bug, but I no longer use Gnome3 myself. I was
> wondering if anyone else experienced this problem before or knew how
> to get a proper debug log without too much work? That way I can have
> the bug filed.

Here is an existing bug report:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/7703

It seems to be caused by a segmentation fault.

Andrew.

I have an .xsession-errors log from the affected computer, including it below:
http://pastebin.com/v2Ehx6zh

If others could post their "/home/user/.xsession-errors" log it may help us track down the culprit. Likely compiz, but not sure will need to do further testing...