Taskbar missing in ubuntu 10.04

If you suddenly find that your ubuntu system have a different kind of problem. One day you start your PC and after loading desktop you discovered that there is no any taskbar or main menubar in your Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) machine. It might happen in your life anytime. If you want to scape from this huge problem then do the advice below:

1. Press Alt+F2, in text fild type 'gnome-terminal' (without quots) and click on 'Run'.
2. In terminal submit the commands below one by one. Select one line at a time and press 'Enter'.

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

You can recover Ubuntu machines 'Taskbar". Systems behave normally.

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