All it really sounds like is that the mce and systemui services are not running. /etc/init.d/mce restart /etc/init.d/osso-systemui restart
~ $ /etc/init.d/mce restart Restarting Mode Controller Entity: mce. ~ $ /etc/init.d/osso-systemui restart rm: cannot remove '/tmp/.icons': Operation not permitted ln: /tmp/.icons/.icons: Permission denied