<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks Tim! This worked and I could fix the problem. The problem was with my ".profile" file.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Really appreciate your help</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tauqeer</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Tim Booth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tbooth@ceh.ac.uk" target="_blank">tbooth@ceh.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I've seen this a couple of times before. Assuming your system didn't<br>
fail part way through a package update it's normally due to a corrupted<br>
settings file in your home folder. To investigate, you can make a<br>
temporary folder and shunt all your dot files into it (don't delete the<br>
files - they have important application data in):<br>
<br>
$ mkdir ~/my_dot_files<br>
$ mv ~/.* ~/my_dot_files<br>
<br>
If you get an error about permissions, fix the permissions so all files<br>
can be moved.<br>
<br>
Then log out and back in. Does that fix it?<br>
<br>
If so, do "ls -A ~" to see what files and directories got recreated and<br>
just move back those that did not. An exception is that you should get<br>
a new ~/.local/share directory and you can restore the missing items<br>
from ~/my_dot_files/.local/share to get back those application settings<br>
too.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
TIM<br>
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On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 21:39 -0400, Tauqeer Alam wrote:<br>
> Hi Tim<br>
><br>
> I am using Biolinux8 as only OS on my machine. This morning I noticed<br>
> that the menu bar and the side bar disappeared when I logged in<br>
> through Ubuntu (default). The Ctrl+Alt+t command is also not working.<br>
> However, I can access everything when I log in through Compiz,<br>
> Metacity or MATE.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Please help!<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
><br>
> Tauqeer<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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