elementary
Disappearance of the wingpanel
Hello !
After a simple apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y my wingpanel disappeared. Totally.
When I call it via the console I get this output
That's really crippling :cry:
You are doing a great job guys ! I have been using elementary since the beginning ! Thanks in advance.
I had a similar problem on Juno unstable which I fixed by reinstalling switchboard and all its plugs from source but unfortunately I did not locate the cause.
Correction: All the plugs for which I had installed a PR version at some point (a fair number), not all.
I have just had this problem reoccur and I did not install any switchboard plug PRs so I am not sure whether that was the cause or not now. It occurred after the window manager stopped responding to clicks on the "close window" button in the middle of a session. I had to shutdown from the terminal. On re-booting, wingpanel failed to appear. On rebooting again the wingpanel is back so I am puzzled.
Another occurrence - this seemed to be associated with memory problems - other apps were becoming slow although no high CPU usage. Killing wingpanel process a couple of times brought back a responsive panel but only for a short time. The system soon locked up completely.
Out of interest, do you have "auto-login" enabled? It maybe that wingpanel expects access to the session key-ring.
Not that I know of. Same for CPU. By just "undoing" my update via Timeshift, I am able to come back to a stable wingpanel... So I really think the update is linked to it.
What's the status of this issue? ElementaryOS is completely unusable now. Thinking about switching to EndlessOS :)
What are you running? Daily or stable? There were a couple of changes that could cause this to happen. Specifically the switch to RDNN scheme and changing when the content of the indicators loads... I also do not think that any of those changes got released to Loki stable at all.
The only thing I can suggest you is to revert to previous version because it's unclear to me what change caused this, it doesn't even have to be the issue in the wingpanel itself.
This is Loki/stable install on my mom’s computer. It had the problem with wingpanel during the whole year that she has it installed, the panel freezed time to time, and crashed often. I tried I think every advice that I’ve read here, including deinstalling ALL indicators & also rebuilding from source, but it didn’t help. Then I hadn’t updated the computer for a while (since February or March I believe), and after I did update it last week the panel completely disappeared and doesn’t work anymore. It can come up after 5 min after the boot, but usually doesn’t. I can’t restore previous versions as there are no old packages in the repository. From what I can see wingpanel wasn’t updated since the end of 2017 in stable, so I conclude the situation became worse after some of its dependencies has updated (no idea which one exactly).