[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 22 August 2010 01:08:14 pm Anne Wainwright wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Woke up the office accounting box the other morning to a severely
> depleted row of icons on the top panel and a ditto menu system. Even
> the System / Preferences with the 'Main Menu' option has gone awol.
>
> What is the basic route to repair this? Where should I start to look?
>
> Oddly if I open a Guest Session, everything is there.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I'd be worried about a failing hard drive. Do an immediate data backup, then 
run some smartmontools tests. Here is a quick intro if you are not familiar 
with smartmontools:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tips/6555/1/

Carla

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