I was successfully running Gutsy 64 bit, but flash wasn't working.
Through Synaptic, I installed flash, and w 1f40 hen it still didn't work, I installed some codecs and Mplayer.
Still didn't work...I rebooted, and now I get no sound and most of the icons are gone from the panels, which are totally grey, and the grey areas are frozen--I can't right or left-click on them. The 3 icons left on the panels--trash, connection and search are working.
I added a user (didn't know how to add a sudoer) and that user's panels are working, but the sound icon has a red x on it, and I get a warning that I either don't have the sound hardware or the proper gstream isn't/aren't installed.
Alsamixer won't start, and neither does gnome-settings-daemon.
Is there a system log that shows what software I have most recently installed? Maybe I can remove it and get back to work?
Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

I posted a response there for you ... and you may close this thread if you do not need it anymore

1. 'sudo' user

To add a user: To add a user to admin group: Now you have a user with sudo rights.

2. sound issue
I whould do somthing like:
But I made some research for you:
*. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=44753
*. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=57074

3. Flash on ubuntu 64
Follow this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476924

Thanks. I had reinstalled Gutsy 64 before I got your reply.
I ran the GetFlash script and it didn't break anything, but it also didn't install Flash. I've posted over at the link, and I'll see what their answer is.

Larry