When I originally experienced this bug (and reported it as bug 742143), it was on the live CD. But I had neglected to say that, shortly thereafter, I discovered that it applied to the newly installed system as well, even after I had updated it, and that it also applies to another Natty system (with equivalent hardware), since I updated that system. The panels sometimes are drawn, but usually are not. That they are sometimes drawn is the reason why I had originally thought that the problem only affected the live CD -- when I first logged in on the installed system, the panels were drawn correctly.
Something else I had neglected to say was that the panels clearly are doing *something* while running (even though they're not drawn), because I am able to run programs from the Alt+F2 menu (which doesn't come up, from that shortcut key combination, unless gnome-panel is running). These virtual machines are fully updated, and still have the problem. I have upgraded VMware from 7.1.3 to 7.1.4 (and upgraded VMware Tools--the guest drivers--accordingly), and the problem occurs. The problem also occurs (in the case of a newly installed system, installed with today's daily-live) before VMware Tools is installed. It appears to happen occasionally with the live CD, and most of the time with an installed system. I know everybody tends to want their bugs to be prioritized higher than they are, so perhaps I'm indulging in that...but since many people run Ubuntu inside VMware (including for production use, not just for testing), and this bug affects a package that nearly every desktop user of Ubuntu uses, and is using almost 100% of the time, that perhaps this bug should be rated higher than Low. It seems that it would be unfortunate if Natty made it all the way through the beta phase without its interface being functional on VMware virtual machines. Of course, no one else has yet confirmed that this happens in all *their* VMware virtual machines. Rather than listing specific details about the configuration of my virtual machines (which are similarly configured to one another), I'll instead attach the .vmx file for one of them, which provides all that information. (This is a tiny file--I'm not actually attaching the other associated files, such as the file representing the virtual machine's hard disk. It's just hardware configuration that I'm trying to convey.) ** Attachment added: "Zim.vmx" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/642877/+attachment/1958573/+files/Zim.vmx -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/642877 Title: Gnome-panel doesn't start upon login -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
