Just installed Snow Leopard, and the menu bar at the top right of the screen has disappeared. Spotlight, wireless, sound, power, date, they are all gone. Before the update I was running Leopard with XMenu, which seems to be incompatible with SL. I uninstalled XMenu, restarted and the menu is still missing.
I've had that happen before SL, exiting from some games. For me changing resolutions in Prefs back and forth worked. Not sure if that will do it in your case though. Good luck.
Login to another User account. Is it working there? If so, try trashing your SystemUIServer preferences in you main User account.
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HD > User > Library > Preference > com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
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Trying it in another account is a good way to find out if the problem is in your User Library, or hard drive and/or System Library.
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I have a similar problem as described here and additionally do not have the preference file you mentioned in your response. I am currently doing a reinstall to see if that helps. Works great on my MacBook (black) but my iMac not so much.
When I setup a second account the menu bar does appear but no luck on my main account.
Troubleshoot your main User Library. Try dragging the whole preference folder to the desktop and reboot. See if it returns.
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I also had the same trouble - menu bar had lost all the icons except Googlenotifier, Caffeine, Quicksilver and Growl! Spotlight icon flashed on and off intermittently - mostly off! Just found Preferences in Library and dragged to Desktop. All back now - but dont understand what I've done! Any learned explanation of what this has done would be really useful. Many thanks Mac Medic!
Trashed the entire preference file and all is well except now have to redo preferences for all applications. Oh well .... problem solved. Thanks for the help