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wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:57 am
by phil_n
Quick System Info below.
I entered the wrong password when doing an upgrade. The box froze. Had to restart. After restart panel 2 has disappeared. Does anyone know how I can get it back?
Thanks in advance.
Phil N

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System:    Kernel: 6.0.0-6mx-amd64 [6.0.12-1~mx21+1] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6mx-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.3_ahs_x64 Wildflower January 15  2023 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-21 v: V1.23 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: SR model: Squirtle_SR v: V1.23 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.23 
           date: 05/27/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 24.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 24.3/37.0 Wh (65.7%) volts: 8.3 min: 7.7 
           model: PANASONIC AP16M5J type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 serial: <filter> 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: AMD A6-9220e RADEON R4 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 type: MCP 
           arch: Excavator family: 15 (21) model-id: 70 (112) stepping: 0 microcode: 6006705 
           cache: L2: 1024 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 6387 
           Speed: 1194 MHz min/max: 1200/1600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1198 
           2: 1198 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed mitigation: untrained return thunk; SMT disabled 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB 
           filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:98e4 class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Quanta VGA WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:5 
           chip-ID: 0408:a031 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
           s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
           diag: 394mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (LLVM 14.0.5 DRM 3.48 6.0.0-6mx-amd64) v: 4.5 Mesa 22.0.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:15b3 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:09.2 chip-ID: 1022:157a class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.0-6mx-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.1 
           chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
           driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel modules: wl port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 
           class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 chip-ID: 04ca:3015 class-ID: e001 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 
           sub-v: 25a hci-v: 4.2 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1024:8 sco-mtu: 50:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 15.5 GiB (1.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0 
           size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD 
           rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 237.04 GiB size: 232.26 GiB (97.98%) used: 15.43 GiB (6.6%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) used: 75.6 MiB (78.8%) fs: vfat 
           dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 14.65 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1939 lib: 921 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
Info:      Processes: 225 Uptime: 18m wakeups: 4 Memory: 7.23 GiB used: 2.65 GiB (36.6%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:01 am
by j2mcgreg
2nd panel? There should only be one.

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:09 am
by Eadwine Rose
If someone creates a 2nd panel then there are two.

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:36 am
by j2mcgreg
Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:09 am If someone creates a 2nd panel then there are two.
I know, but I'm wondering if in the kerfuffle, he inadvertently switched work spaces?

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:50 am
by Charlie Brown
If you right-click on current panel: ... "Panel Preferences" , does it show "Panel 2" when you click the drop-down (on top) ?

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:56 am
by phil_n
No

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:27 pm
by phil_n
How would you start trouble shooting this? What about looking into config files? It's not a huge deal but I'd like to know what happened? Also maybe I should submit a bug report? Thanks.

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:29 am
by Eadwine Rose
You can look into where the panel usually sits, in the .restore folder

See if there is more than 1 there.

You can also check if you switched workspaces indeed. Since I don't use them, not a clue how to do that though.

As to what happened, /var/log/syslog is a good one to start with, especially the time when it happened.

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:59 am
by hebelwirkung
Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:09 am If someone creates a 2nd panel then there are two.
Also, for future unexpected problems of this kind, it might be a good idea to back up your panel configuration (MX Tweak/Panel/Backup current panel configuration). Next time a panel mysteriously vanishes, just click on "restore backup panel configuration".

Re: wrong password ate 2nd panel

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:15 am
by Charlie Brown
Normally it's here:

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~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml
You can search for "panel-2" inside the file, or have a look whether there's another file beginning with xfce4-panel there (maybe with another extension: xfce4-panel...bak or xfce4-panel ...old etc..)


The .restore is where your panel backups are saved (I wish you did).


... Even if you changed workspaces it would (re)boot with workspace 1 ...