lost top and bottom pannels

[spottyrover]

When I started the computer up this morning I got a message that home/.dmrc has the wrong permission and it should be 644
I clicked ok and when it started I found no top and bottom panels
I checked the file /home/dave/.dmrc and found the partition to be 600
i tried to change it with a su console to 644 by ¨chmod 644 .dmrc¨
but it keeps going back.
I checked /root/.dmrc and it also has 600 not 644 but the top and bottom panels are still there


Any help would be appreciated

Dave

[spottyrover]

installed from iso
as far as i recall after installing kaffeine (I needed to also install all of the  libqt4... files except libqt4-dev, libqtscripttools4) and k3b I have rebooted and had no problems.
Since then I have installed openoffice and after that
Installed the following packages:
MediaInfo_GUI (0.7.30-1pclos2010)
esvn (0.7.0-0.svn1263.2pclos2007)
gstreamer0.10-mpeg (0.10.14-1pclos2010)
gstreamer0.10-vdpau (0.10.18-1pclos2010)
gstreamer0.10-x264 (0.10.14-1pclos2010)
gstreamer0.10-xvid (0.10.18-1pclos2010)
gtk-recordmydesktop (0.3.8-1pclos2009)
libapr-util1 (1.3.9-3pclos2010)
libapr1 (1.3.9-2pclos2010)
libapr_memcache0 (0.7.0-10pclos2009)
libgstvdp0.10_0 (0.10.18-1pclos2010)
libmediainfo0 (0.7.30-1pclos2010)
libqt3 (3.3.8b-1pclos2010)
libserf0 (0.3.0-1pclos2009)
libsvn0 (1.6.6-1pclos2010)
libzen0 (0.4.12-1pclos2010)
qt3-common (3.3.8b-1pclos2010)
recordmydesktop (0.3.8.1-1pclos2009)
subversion (1.6.6-1pclos2010)
tightvnc (1.3.10-1pclos2010)
tightvnc-server (1.3.10-1pclos2010)
x11-server-xvnc (1.6.5-2pclos2010)
via synaptic

rebooted the next day and no top and bottom panels.


Dave

[spottyrover]

found some info that worked. In a console type in

xfce4-panel &
disown %xfce4-panel

when you reboot it should stay active

Thanks for the advice

Dave