Upgraded XFCE, Panels Missing

[B J]

I finally got the panels back, though I'm not quite sure what happened.  I
tinkered with some of the D-Bus packages and installed Qt 5.  Maybe that's
what was missing.  If it was, it might have happened while I first upgraded
the packages.

BMJ


On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:27 AM B J <va6bmj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I upgraded all the packages on my xfce machine and upgraded from FreeBSD
> 11.2 to 11.3.  Somewhere in the process, the panels stopped working.
>
> Both xfce4-panel and xfce4-panel-profiles are installed.  Going through
> Settings Manager, I get the following message:
>
> Failed to show the preferences dialog
>
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Service.Unknown:  The name
> org.xfce.Panel was not provided by any .service files
>
> I also tried:
>
> pkg-static upgrade -f
>
> but that didn't change anything.  I haven't deleted all the xfce files and
> re-installed them yet.  I also checked on the Internet for this and I
> haven't found any information on this, either.
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.
>
> B. M. Jatzeck
>
>