lxpanel never loads

[ghalfacree]

Logged in as pi, loading the desktop via startx: background image appears, mouse cursor appears and is responsive, then nothing. lxpanel doesn't appear at the bottom of the screen, and the process goes no further.

Switching out to another tty, top reports pcmanfm using 33% of the CPU and lxpanel another 10-30% variable. Leaving the system for twenty minutes - just in case it's being slow - results in no change. System is otherwise fully responsive at other ttys and over SSH during the process.

Same hardware combination (monitor, keyboard, mouse, SD card and Pi) using Debian 19-04-12 image works fine, with startx resulting in a fully working desktop environment with about fifteen seconds.

[ghalfacree]

Re-wrote the image for the third time, and it worked. Sorry for the false alarm!