Comment 21 for bug 1253693

experiencing the same problem with 14.10. not in the beginning, it was fine for a couple of months. an upgrade in the last 2 weeks cased to disappear the shutdown entry and user menu.

it looks like was known before from gnome panel, where there are a lot of "how to reset" entries in google. but this seems not to work here?

gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
killall gnome-panel