Sometimes the GNOME panel doesn't load in Trisquel 6.0
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Hello!
It's been a while since I noticed that the GNOME panel wasn't loading every time I turned my machine on. The icons are in place and I can open them. However, my system is unusable since I cannot start a program normally (I suppose I could from terminal or the binaries' folder manually but it'd be a hassle). My solution is to restart the computer from the button. Then it would load in most of the cases. I should note that the problem happens somewhat regularly but not always and sometimes I have to reboot even twice or more. It seems pretty big issue so I finally post it here.
You can probably bring the panel back by Alt+F2 and running gnome-panel. It's harder to say what the actual problem is.
Your solution worked right away. However, I hoped to find someone who had experienced such a problem and figured the cause out. Anyway, thanks for the wonderful workaround.
Probably the panel crashes. To perhaps find out why try running it from a terminal as suggested by davidnotcoulthard. (Leave the term window open you launch the panel from and hope for a crash, then should one happen look at the term window to see a potential error message.) You can launch a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T.
Or you could take a peek at /var/log/syslog in case it contains something related and useful. (Yeah, not exactly an easy log to decipher...)
Can I keep launching panel from terminal repeatedly till it crashes or just once after starting up the system. Can I stop the process and relaunch it again if that is a good idea at all?
I guess it's best to only launch it once and wait it to crash. I don't know what happens if you launch more than one. If it runs you can remove the process with
pkill gnome-panel
(that'll kill all gnome-panels should there be more than one running)
Interestingly I had to kill it twice. After running pkill at first the panel disappeared for a second then it auto-started (WOW!). I ran the command again and the panel was gone. Then I started the panel by gnome-panel command and it loaded but I got this:
~$ pkill gnome-panel
~$ pkill gnome-panel
~$ gnome-panel
(gnome-panel:2777): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:2459: signal `size_request' is invalid for instance `0x22847e0'
|
I got different message when I was running that command after start-up (see my post below). The symbol "|" is for the cursor. I have to mention that when the panel was loading (both times) it appeared on the top of the screen for a moment then on the bottom (normal position).
Opening the terminal and running gnome-panel would be a rather good (if temporary) solution.....maybe
It didn't crash after I'd entered gnome-panel in the terminal but I got this:
>Panel leaving: a new panel shell is starting.
>
>(gnome-panel:2003): EggSMClient-CRITICAL **: egg_sm_client_set_mode: assertion `global_client == NULL || global_client_mode == EGG_SM_CLIENT_MODE_DISABLED' failed
And again:
> Panel leaving: a new panel shell is starting.
>
>(gnome-panel:2085): EggSMClient-CRITICAL **: egg_sm_client_set_mode: assertion `global_client == NULL || global_client_mode == EGG_SM_CLIENT_MODE_DISABLED' failed
I'm afraid that doesn't mean anything to me. Perhaps somebody with more insight will come along and see this.
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