I booted up my Ubuntu 13.10 system running Unity today to find that the clock was missing in the app panel.
Fortunately this was easy to fix without having to reboot the system. I simply ran the following:
[chris@work ~]$ killall unity-panel-service [chris@work ~]$
The clock instantly appeared.
If this doesn’t fix your problem, make sure that you have the indicator-datetime package installed. You can try installing it by running the following:
[gaarai@tenshi ~]$ sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-control-center-datetime{a} indicator-datetime 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/55.7 kB of archives. After unpacking 318 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Selecting previously unselected package indicator-datetime. (Reading database ... 552412 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking indicator-datetime (from .../indicator-datetime_13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gnome-control-center-datetime. Unpacking gnome-control-center-datetime (from .../gnome-control-center-datetime_13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for mime-support ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up indicator-datetime (13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1) ... Setting up gnome-control-center-datetime (13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... [gaarai@tenshi ~]$
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Worked like a charm. Thank you.
Thanks!
nice ! – worked .. .. !!!
Worked brilliantly – thanks!
Thank you, it worked. I’ve been using Ubuntu for a month now and every day I find something new broken without any logical explanation.
Thanks 🙂
Nice tutorial!
+1
worked perfectly!
Took less than 30 seconds to make the fix. Thanks!
worked perfectly!
Worked on the upgrade to 14.1 as well. I’ve never come across the problem before. Thanks.
Happened to me for no reason in Ubuntu 14.04
The command “killall unity-panel-service” worked a treat.
Thanks! 😀
Thanks!!! 😀
Thanks, worked perfectly.
Great quick fix! I was skeptical since I’m using 15.04, and this was for a few versions ago, but it worked like a charm.
Thanks!!!!!
Did not work for me. Running 14.04 unity. I get – sudo aptitude: command not found. My system name says (precise) next to it. I think this may have something to do with this not working, how i get out of precise mode?
Looks like your system doesn’t have the aptitude command. You can also use the apt-get command, such as:
sudo apt-get install indicator-datetimesinclair52@Girnigoe:~$ killall unity-panel-service
This worked like a charm. Thanks!