Missing Dash/Panel/Launcher

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 09:14, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.4, worked fine, then update & dist-upgrade (to
> 16.04.5)
>
> Now all I have is wallpaper (background) Dash/Panel/Launcher missing, only
> thing that shows (sometimes) is the update to 18.04.1 dialogue, then only for a
> fraction of a second, it goes away before I can click anything, it will come
> back lower on screen a bit later, and go again as quickly
>
> I have tried all the normal solutions I can find, with no success

I presume it is ok until you try to login (since you have not said otherwise.
Have you tried logging in as a different user?

Colin