panel not responding

[bejohns]

I just did a clean install (not upgrade) of 19.04 onto a new disk. Everything seemed to go fine.
It boots, I can login, etc, but the panel (on the bottom of the screen) stops responding. I first
noticed it when I went to start the launcher and it wouldn't respond either to a click on
the "gear-K" icon or with an Alt-F1. I thought it was a problem with the launcher, but later I
noticed the "user switcher" widget I put on the panel won't respond either. If I do a
"desktop refresh (F5)" from the desktop menu it starts working again, Although I sometimes
have to do it multiple times. Any time I launch a program from the launcher it launches but
then the panel stops responding.

Any ideas.

Thanks.

[jglen490]

New hardware? Old hardware? Did you checksum the downloaded ISO?

Post the results of

inxi -Fxxr

into a CODE box (the # button in the reply box header).

[bejohns]

Actually this turns out to be a case of shooting myself in the foot. While restoring files from
backup, I accidentally overwrote some dot files and I am pretty sure that is was caused the
problem.

I replaced the "restored" .config directory with a fresh one and logged out/in and the problem
disappeared. I jumped too quickly to the conclusion that there was something wrong with
the distro when I should have thought about what I did first.

Thanks for responding however.