Thanks for your reply. Basically, things have gone from bad to worse and I haven't got back to the point where I encountered this bug yet. I eventually gave up on the system where these problems occurred, because I upgraded [to a Dell XPS 420]. My old computer had an ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 32Mb video card, which may have been part of the problem.
I've been trying to install 8.04 on my IBM Thinkpad x22 with no result [keeps hanging during repartioning for some reason], but if I encounter this problem again [since a few others have experienced this] I will report it. Cheers, D.K. Dixon On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM, IanW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu > better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity > in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? > (You can often get faster answers to non-bug on irc: irc.freenode.net, > #ubuntu) > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > Desktop panel disappears after clicking "log out" button > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228854 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > I've recently upgraded from release 7.10 to 8.04. > > Although I'm very new to Ubuntu, in the month or so I have been running 7.10, > I've had no problems. > > When clicking the red "log out" button, the panel disappears from the > desktop. Restarting the desktop brings it back, but disappears if you click > on button again. Choosing "Quit" from the system menu produces the same > effect. > > I can't get the Terminal either: when I click on the Applications button, it > highlights, but no menu drops down, I have to use alt + F2 and run the > shutdown command from the terminal option. > > However, I can click on Places, System and get drop-down menu; I can launch > Firefox [using it now], and everything else appears normalish. > > There are other strange things happening: > > 1] on last boot up, got the following message: > > "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when > attempting to locate the factory. Killing bonobo-activation-server and > restarting Nautilus may help fix the problem." [don't know how to do this, > although Desktop appears with problems listed above] > > 2] can't save text files after calling gedit from the terminal option to log > error reports [msg: disk full etc ; it is not full] > > 3] can't run updates from the update manager, i get the following message: > > "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to > correct the problem. > E: _cache->open() failed, please report." > > Although I didn't get any unusual messages during the upgrade to 8.04, I > think it might be time to do a clean install and see how things go, unless > you have some suggested remedies. > > p.s. As a really old geek who has been involved with technology for over 20 > years, I think Ubuntu is awesome! Major kudos for all of your hard work - it > is appreciated. > -- "Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." Buddhist Proverb Dennis K. Dixon, Ph.D., B.Ed. Chair, Academic Guided Studies Main Street Education Centre 4th Floor, 333 Terminal Ave Vancouver, BC V6A 2L7 Phone: 604.713.5809 -- Desktop panel disappears after clicking "log out" button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
