On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:31:52PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > >How about the following commands? > > >$ killall gnome-panel && gnome-panel& > > It keeps returning that there is no process called gnome-panel.
This means that the panel is not started at all. The second command requires the first to complete successfully with provided syntax. You should try just the second part: $ gnome-panel & or $ gnome-panel It might be a misconfiguration or malformed file on which the panel depends. This could happen if the system was not powered off properly, for which the reasons are many.
