Menues gone after Ubuntu update

Asked by Renardo

Today Ubuntu (16.04) installed some security-critical updates and afterwards prompted me for a restart. After the restart several programs had lost their menus (which are normally shown instead of the window title when I move the mouse into the title bar. Under these programs are nautilus, gnome-terminal and LibreOffice but not Firefox and Thunderbird (which, afaIu, build their own menues).

I started a "compiz --replace" in a terminal, and it showed the following messages (menues were still gone):

    ERROR 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:538 DBus name lost 'org.gnome.Shell'
    ERROR 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.glib.dbus.server GLibDBusServer.cpp:538 DBus name lost 'com.canonical.Unity'
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    WARN 2016-05-06 17:12:02 unity.key.gnome.grabber GnomeKeyGrabber.cpp:94 Trying to grab a disabled action, we skip it
    X does not support your locale

Could that be related to the problem? I have been using LANG=eo.utf8 for several years.

"uname -a" says "Linux xxxx 4.4.0.21.generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux".

What can I do to get my menues back? Any help appreciated.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#1

I assume that you are facing the problem described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Unity_7

It is probably Bug #1532226

Try the command

restart unity-panel-service

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Renardo (renardo) said :
#2

Thanks, Martin, that's very likely. I cannot check it right now as the problem did not manifest itself after a reboot but I shall remember.

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Renardo (renardo) said :
#3

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Renardo (renardo) said :
#4

Today the phenomenon occurred again, and "restart unity-panel-service" fixed the problem.