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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244285 Title: Date/time sometimes doesn’t appear in menu bar, settings greyed out (Ubuntu 13.10, 14.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1244285/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs