[SOLVED] Ubuntu - disappearing panels

[psic]

Hello everyone,

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04. Everything was working fine for a couple of days when my panels started disappearing with every reboot. My fix so far is to Alt-F2 and run the terminal, where I restart the panels with the commands:

gconftool-2 --shutdown
pkill gnome-panel

This brings the panels back but without my customizations. What's worse is that it even started forgetting the skin which I use, and even the positions of the minimize, maximize and close buttons which I configured with gconf-editor.

There has been talk of this at the Ubuntu forums but no solution - at least nothing permanent, so I though I'd ask here.

Anyhow, I have an Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX400 which ran great in Ubuntu 9.10 (and 9.04 before that) and a wide monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I use the Nvidia driver which in the last Ubuntu worked fine - without this I don't think I can set this high resolution.

So, any ideas?

[Segfault]

The source of first problem is buried somewhere in your home directory. In ~/.config/ probably. I'd rename it and let Gnome to recreate it. Then copy over from backed up .config/ whatever seems necessary.

Second, I'm not sure ... do you have some problem with display now?

[psic]

The source of first problem is buried somewhere in your home directory. In ~/.config/ probably. I'd rename it and let Gnome to recreate it. Then copy over from backed up .config/ whatever seems necessary.

Second, I'm not sure ... do you have some problem with display now?

Thanks for the reply, I'll try your solution and post the results.

There really isn't a second problem - the resolution is fine, I just thought that the culprit might be the graphics driver, which I can't live without

Again, thanks for the help.

[psic]

Thank you, it's worked great. I deleted the folder which you mentioned, having first made a backup. I copied a few folders from said backup (e.g. the folder for Chrome settings) and everything works great.

I've only rebooted once, so it still might go wrong, but for now, I'm adding [Solved] to the thread.