no login and no taskbar : Zorin NOK

Hi,

I installed the latest version of ZORIN this week because I got fed up with Mint and Gnome3.....( Mint 9 was my favorite flavor )

just loved the interface and feel..... tried Gnome, XP and Win& modes and all were great

yesterday I logged off in the Win 7 mode and today ZORIN has gone haywire !!!

I don't have to log in, and the taskbars have gone....I only get the three icons and I can right kick on the desktop to change the background and that kind of stuff but nothing else. Not even shutdown is possible

How do I fix the problem?

Mark

Hi Mark,

when you start your PC, go to recovery mode and select "dpkg" from the list and run it, it should fix the problem!!.

Regards Wolfman

tried it, still doesn't work.

Press alt+f2. In the window that will open write gnome-terminal and click enter.

In terminal write

Code:

killall gnome-panel

and hit enter.

See if this will get your panel bar back.


Otherwise, press alt+F2 and instead of gnome-terminal, you can write look-changer, and then you can chose another kind of look, or again the win7 look to see if this time you will get the complete look back.

If nothing of the above works, press Alt+F2, write gnome-terminal, hit <enter> and in terminal write:

Code:

gnome-panel --replace &

If you get any messages in terminal, just hit <enter> to conclude them, and then close terminal.

Nothing off the above helps !! even Alt-F2 doesn't work!!

When I started up in the Recovery mode and ran the dpkg. then if I start in "FailsafeX" mode and "run ubuntu in low graphics mode" everything works just fine. Even Alt-F2 works.....

I'm still baffled, maybe reinstalling would help....

Mark

Hi Mark (possum),

have you installed the graphics card drivers??.

In the control center under hardware but only for ATI and Nvidia.

Regards Wolfman

If you press ctrl+Alt+F2 can you get to the whole black terminal screen?

Give your name and password, and then run the above commands.

To get back to your desktop press ctrl+alt+F7.

Hi guys

Sorry that I hadn't responded. We have been celebrating Carnaval so I havn't been very sober the last few days.

I'll get back to you this evening (in a few hours)

Mark

Hi

Ctrl-Alt-F2 works, but if I use "killall gnome-panel" I get the message : no process found

Also "gnome-panel --replace &" gives the message "GTK warning: cannot open display" and after enter
[1]+ Exit1

I also changed the driver for the graphics card but no improvement......

Mark

Hi Mark,

copy and paste these commands into a terminal, one after the other:

sudo dpkg - -configure -a

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Then restart your PC and see if you still have the problem!!.

Regards Wolfman

swarfendor437 wrote:Hi Wolfman, If he does sudo apt-get upgrade won't that pull down Natty/Oneiric?

Hi swarf,

no! it won't, all the upgrade command does is update any packages he has installed but not the main OS itself

The update command just updates the list of packages available

Regards Wolfman

Hi Wolfman

I tried the dpkg and apt-get commands but still no success.

What I did do is to create a launcher and enter the "sudo gnome-panel --replace &"

when I klick the icon I get a terminal and the task bars reappear.

[sudo] password for skippy:
** Message: Could not connect to session manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name

** (gnome-panel:2052): WARNING **: Could not connect to session manager: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/types.py:44: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
return info.invoke(*args)

Ok, but when I close the terminal the task bars disappear again

very annoying

Mark

possum wrote:
Ok, but when I close the terminal the task bars disappear again

After you give the "sudo gnome-panel --replace &", and your panel appears, do not close the terminal by clicking on the top right "X" button of the terminal window.
Press <enter> again to conclude the task!

Press <enter> again to conclude the task!

this doesn't work, the only way to quit the terminal is to use the " X "

I need a way to activate the driver.....

Mark

After the "sudo gnome-panel --replace &", even leaving the terminal open, I suppose that you can get to start-up applications, correct?

If yes, add a new start-up application with command "gnome-panel" (without the quotes). Name it as you like i.e. Gnome Panel.

Then reboot.

Zorin crashed completely, don't know how but couldn't start up the system ( after grub black screen and some text)

Took the easy way out --> formatted partition and re-installed ZORIN

all seems to work well

Mark