I am seeing the same issue. To me it looks like lxpanel is running, but does not actually display the panel on screen. If you open a terminal, run 'killall lxpanel' and then restart lxpanel with 'lxpanel &' it actually appears on screen. In my case this is on a new install just done this morning on an amd64 architecture machine.
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