I see it also on 14.04 (32-bit) but only very recently. And it happened always right away after boot and log in. A workaround (a bit more elegant that the killall one mentioned above) was for me to just start the service in a shell as ...
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime- service ... which i copy/pasted from /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator- datetime.desktop. Looking in log-files in /var/log and in ~/.xsession- error i didn't find any errors, so not sure whether it crashed or simply didn't get started (e.g., whether above xdg autostart was ignored?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244285 Title: Date/time sometimes doesn’t appear in menu bar, settings greyed out (Ubuntu 13.10, 14.04) Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Triaged Status in The Date and Time Indicator: Confirmed Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: it does not happen often, and when it happens, just a log out and re- log in is enough to restore it. http://askubuntu.com/questions/357266/how-to-show-time-in- ubuntu-13-10/357280 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1244285/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp