Missing menus on fresh boots or restarts on ubuntu sessions

This has been occurring for several months to varying degrees per user in ubuntu sessions. (more likely to occur quite often on recent fresh install
A check on whether affected by currently open bug is to log out/in. If the menus retu then the bug it is.
orig. report - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1532226

If affected quite often & desiring an auto workaround while awaiting a proper fix this can be done as described below. If doing so one should subscribe to the report so they know when fixed. Then the below autostart can be disabled/removed.

mkdir -p .config/autostart

gedit .config/autostart/menus.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=initctl restart unity-panel-service
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=menus
Comment=Show me the menus
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=