Panel Disappearing in Zenwalk.

[nitish_mythology]

Yestarday after a power cut at my place, I turned off my lappy and booted into my Zenwalk installation (Xfce) after an hour or so.

I was surprised to see the panel n dock disappearing.. Tried to crearte a new panel, by going

Right Click ----- Settings ---- Panel Manager
&
Tried to open panel manager from Zenwalk settings.

It refused to work!!

I was clicking on the panel manager and there was no action ! In the end I had to create a new login id n I got my panels back. All is working well here and I can acces panel settings.

What was the reason behind the strange behaviour??

your filesystem may got corrupted due to direct failure.try to use a livecd and run "fsck.ext3 -fvy /dev/sdxy" where sdxy is your zenwalk partition.make sure the partition NOT mounted.

[ghost at rest]

It looks like config files of Xfce have been corrupted. Are there any .xfce-xx folders in your home folder? Rename those and log out/in back.

ls -al

[nitish_mythology]

I have deleted the User Id..
Cant do much.. Nyways how can those files get corrupt all on their own?

[Quiz_Master]

Originally Posted by nitish_mythology

I have deleted the User Id..
Cant do much.. Nyways how can those files get corrupt all on their own?

Array your question have answer itself.. Improper Shutdown.. Thats why the config. files got corrupted.

A disk check (and renaming old config file) and restarting of PC will solve the problem in most cases.

[nitish_mythology]

^^ There was no improper shutdown.
I was working on my lappy.

[nitish_mythology]

Found the Reason

Its a bug that exists and is causing the problem! All I need to do was pess alt+f2 n type xfce4-panel.

Thats it, work done!