Comment 5 for bug 53897

When I booted xubuntu feisty livecd (the official version) it came up with no panel at all.

This is on my tired old 1999 latitude laptop. Took 15 minutes to boot :-O 256 MB RAM

I looked thru /var/log/* for odd things about "panel" and saw nothing.

It worked to run xfce4-panel& from a terminal window.

I did notice some odd cdrom drive errors during boot - I might be lucky it booted at all...
But other things seem fine.

E.g. in /var/log/dmesg:

[ 460.964250] hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[ 460.964282] hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
[ 460.964300] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 460.964709] hdc: error code: 0x70 sense_key: 0x03 asc: 0x15 ascq: 0x00
[ 460.964790] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 387868
[ 460.964810] Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 96967
[ 465.272659] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x2eba7
[ 465.272729] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache block [bae500c]
[ 465.272799] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block bae500c, size 4e32
[ 546.837951] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x2eb94
[ 546.838036] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache block [bae1b6f]
[ 546.838110] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block bae1b6f, size 349d