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I've just installed 11.10 and am having some big problems. After installing updates and programs I wanted I did a restart which was apparently necessary for changes to take place.

Now my unity launcher is completely missing, my nice dark top panel is now the standard yucky grey and I'm missing all the email and user controls on the right hand side of it, including the ones to turn the computer on and off.

Does anyone know how I can deal with this? Thanks!

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Is my issue askubuntu.com/questions/67439/… similar to yours? – igi Oct 16 '11 at 11:42
yep exactly the same problem actually.. the unity bar came back on a reboot, but icons are missing. I think it could be something to do with the ATIO/AMD graphics driver? – user27859 Oct 16 '11 at 12:53
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I found the workaround here:

sudo rm /usr/share/GConf/gsettings/pythonconsole.convert
gsettings-data-convert
gnome-settings-daemon

Then, to solve definitely at every login, I had to create a launcher to gnome-settings-daemon in my home folder and add it to my startup applications.

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If unity is a bit broken you could try resetting it - see this question for more details, but the short version is to open a terminal and type:

unity --reset

Also it might be worth uninstalling the nautilus-open-terminal package if you had it installed - this caused compiz crashes (launchpad bug) which might lead to your problems. The fix is currently in the oneiric-proposed repository, and should be generally available soon, but not quite yet.

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Hi there! Thanks. Unity --reset doesn't do anything I'm afraid. As for the open terminal package, is that something I would have installed myself? I re installed ubuntu again last night and everything seemed fine. didn't install drivers this time, but still he same problem on reboot. it seems many icons are missing and the top panel is white and missing certain controls. – user27859 Oct 17 '11 at 4:45
someone else has exactly the same problem and was told it's a GNOME settings daemon bug. Do you think there'll be a fix for this at some point? I mean, it's working ok but looks weird! :) – user27859 Oct 17 '11 at 4:53
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I had a similar problem. I discovered that my nvidia driver had been uninstalled / disabled during the update. I downloaded and re-enabled the driver and everything worked fine.

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