zorin 9 trouble with vmware player

Hello everyone, I am in vmware player and I have installed fresh a clean install of zorin 9. However, I have an issue. My start menu does not allow me to shut down! It appears below the taskbar. I have searched google and could not find a solution. I also notice the right hand side notification icons disappear as well. I have not messed with any settings, or have done anything. I simply open firefox, browse for a little bit and then this happens. I have checked and installed updates. It seems to happen regardless over a little bit of time.

1. Name (Brand) of Computer Tower/System, Notebook Brand and model [Notebook = misnomer of 'Laptop' ]

Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Built
OS Windows 7 Professional x64 Sp1
CPU AMD FX 8 core 8350 Black edition 4.21GHZ
Motherboard ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 Limited Edition
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
Graphics Card Asus HD 7870 2GB GDDR5 GHZ edition (HD7870-DC2-2GD5-V2)
Sound Card Motherboard Built in
Monitor(s) Displays Dell LCD SP2008WFP 22'' Monitor
Screen Resolution 1440 x 900

Update your System Spec Keyboard Wired Dell keyboard
Mouse Wireless Logitech mouse
PSU Rosewill Stallion Series RD700 700W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready
Case Rosewill ARMOR-EVO Gaming E-ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Cooling 220mm, two 120mm, and four 60mm fans, CORSAIR Hydro H55
Hard Drives 1TB Western Digital Black Edition 7200 RPM (Main Drive) Another one for backup.
Internet Speed 130mb down, 30mb up
Antivirus Panda Cloud Antivirus
Browser IE11, Firefox, Chrome-ish x64
Other Info Your awesome for reading this.



3. Whether Zorin is the only OS on the computer or dual-boot (e.g. Windows [and which version of Windows!] and Zorin).

vmware player free

4. Hard Drive partitioning.

none


7. Whether you ran Zorin Live first to check it worked before installing.

Yes, worked fine

8. Which version of Zorin you have installed/have in mind to install.

9 all updates


I have attached screenshot, thank you!

EDIT:

I have also played around with different screen resolutions. Unfortunately nothing helped.

What happens if you remove and reinstall AWN?

Code:

sudo  apt-get purge avant-window-navigator && sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator

First, thank you very much for your help. I am new at this. Here is the output and the issue still stands: (Even after a restart)

zorin@zorin-virtual-machine:~$ sudo apt-get purge avant-window-navigator
[sudo] password for zorin:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
avant-window-navigator-data bzr libdesktop-agnostic-bin libjs-jquery
localechooser-data python-bzrlib python-configobj python-gpgme
python-keyring python-launchpadlib python-lazr.restfulclient python-lazr.uri
python-oauth python-secretstorage python-simplejson python-wadllib
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
avant-window-navigator* awn-settings*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,665 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 229332 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing awn-settings (0.4.2-0ppa1) ...
Removing avant-window-navigator (0.4.2-0ppa1) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing avant-window-navigator, directory '/usr/lib/awn/applets/expander' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing avant-window-navigator, directory '/usr/lib/awn/applets/simple-launcher' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing avant-window-navigator, directory '/usr/lib/awn/applets/taskmanager' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing avant-window-navigator, directory '/usr/lib/awn/applets/quick-prefs' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing avant-window-navigator, directory '/usr/lib/awn/applets/separator' not empty so not removed
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-0ubuntu2) ...
zorin@zorin-virtual-machine:~$ sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package avant-window-navigator is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
avant-window-navigator-data

E: Package 'avant-window-navigator' has no installation candidate

Hi, my next suggestion might be to run Zorin VM in safe graphics mode - ensure you have wired network access and run 'dpkg' for it to check what packages are missing to get you back from where you started. I must admit I had forgotten that it has been repackaged differently and put this down to how Zorin have put it together (could be wrong) - you may want to give Docky or Cairo-Dock a whirl. You may need to add Precise PPA repository to access avant-window-navigator then take a look at modifying the panel how I did it!

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7983

Swarfendor437 wrote:Hi, my next suggestion might be to run Zorin VM in safe graphics mode - ensure you have wired network access and run 'dpkg' for it to check what packages are missing to get you back from where you started. I must admit I had forgotten that it has been repackaged differently and put this down to how Zorin have put it together (could be wrong) - you may want to give Docky or Cairo-Dock a whirl. You may need to add Precise PPA repository to access avant-window-navigator then take a look at modifying the panel how I did it!

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7983

Thanks for your response, ha. Is there an english version?

I am just starting out with linux really and I have no idea how to do the above.

Safe graphics mode?


It is just odd that it worked fine when I originally installed it everything was fine. I am going to try a reinstall.

Sorry, it used to say that - choose second option in GRUB and choose Advanced options!

When you reinstall, when you see the blue screen with keyboard = accessibility, press space bar and you will be instantly taken to the F2 option to choose your language, F3 to choose your keyboard's locale (language) then F6 and try seeing what happens when you select 'nomodeset'.

You may also want to follow decalman's excellent text install guide here:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8004&p=38810&hilit=text+based+install#p38810