---------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE ADVISE Should I file a separate bug report or should I add my details? Same problem on 2 PC's, I have the same dynamics but - no Matrox, I have an Nvidia binary on one and a generic FLOSS driver on the other. - no panels at all, not partially showing panels. - my very 1st account is not affected, while all subsequent ones are.
Since I have both working and borked accounts on the same machines I could provide comparisons. Also, perhaps I can point to a filesystem metadata issue. ---------------------------------------------------------- I can reproduce the disappearance in 2 different ways: 1) Just LOGGING INTO the account. Code: adduser username [etc.] Login -> panels are there. Logout. Login again. -> panels gone. On 1st login, the user's home gets filled with the standard Gnome conffiles. Those Gnome files may be originally generated with a wrong configuration. 2) Don't even use the account, but back up and restore the user's home directory. Code: adduser user username ... cp -avx /home/username /backup-path/username rm -rf /home/username cp -avx /backup-path/username /home/username In this case, /home/username should be a straight copy of the original freshly generated /home/username WITHOUT any Gnome-added conffiles. So a login SHOULD result in a full, fresh Gnome with the panels as on a 1st login. Yet, even on the 1st login, panels gone. IS IT FILESYSTEM METADATA? This is germane to an account losing the panels after a crash / power failure, as that too may impede disk flushing and syncing. A metadata change also happens during a successful login with panels. However, my so far little-used but older personal account is fine. It has survived several login-logout cycles and even one instance of power failure without proper logout. -- Panel utilities not shown on startup using Matrox gfx with compiz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572550 You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
