XFCE panel dissapeared after restore in 18.04

Bug #1783887 reported by Taw Tano
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xfce4-panel (Ubuntu)
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xfpanel-switch (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I upgraded Xubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 and I tried to restore my panel settings.
XFCE panel dissapeared completely, I cannot see it anymore, so it's broken...I attached my settings.

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Taw Tano (tawmoto) wrote :
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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Please run the following terminal command, and then try reproduce the problem:

killall xfce4-panel; xfce4-panel

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Taw Tano (tawmoto) wrote :

I reproduced it very easily and the problem is that I don't have any panel at all now, even after restart :((, it's really not pleasant, I hope I don't have to reinstall the linux.

See attached video, I recorded the problem.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZZ_xIqdaWUSZyS8jr1dQfrHdRgQr-zLm

I really don't understand why this bug has the status "Incomplete" although I provided all the necessary info and also broke my xfce panel...

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Thanks for the quick reply.

The terminal output which is partially visible in your video may help to debug this issue. Please attach it to this bug report.

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Taw Tano (tawmoto) wrote :

Now I don't have the possibility to reproduce because I don't have a panel at all (to import), as I mentioned in the last post...:(
How can I make it appear again?

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

What terminal output do you get when trying to start xfce4-panel?

Other than that, you can restore the default configuration by removing the following files:

~/.config/xfce4/panel/
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

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Taw Tano (tawmoto) wrote :

When I write "xfce4-panel" in the cmdline, I get nothing, the terminal is stuck. When I press Ctr+C, I get this.

taw@taw-pc2:~/Desktop$ xfce4-panel
^C
(xfce4-panel:1776): xfce4-panel-CRITICAL **: 20:38:24.593: panel-application.c:1250 (panel_application_save): expression 'XFCONF_IS_CHANNEL (channel)' failed.

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

I will try to reproduce this bug with your config file.

Were you able to restore the default panel configuration? Alternatively, you should be able to run "xfpanel-switch", and pick a preset.

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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

I was able to make your configuration work by removing these two lines from the config.txt:

/panels/panel-1/output-name 'monitor-1'
/panels/panel-1/position 'p=8;x=94;y=1019'

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in xfpanel-switch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Taw Tano (tawmoto) wrote :

Great, it works also on my PC now.
When I exported it, I had a different PC with 2 monitors and bigger resolution.
Could this be the problem?

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