OpenIndiana Distribution

I'm documenting this for future users who have the unfortunate experience I had.

​Source: http://www.watchingthenet.com/restore-panels-in-ubuntu-back-to-their-default-settings.html

So, you've just updated OpenIndiana to A9 and now when you log into gnome its all messed up. There is no menu bar etc.

There is a fix, provided by the ubuntu experts not the solaris guys (Cause they're all about the command line!) joking :).

Log in to gnome

On the desktop background (which is all you have) right click and open terminal.

In terminal do the following:-

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
    rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel
    pkill gnome-panel

This closes the panel application (which is your menu bars), then clears the panel applications config, then kills panel, which eventually reloads itself with a default config, restoring everything.

Suggestion would be to add this process to the update package possibly?