Have you made any custom changes to the portal? Perhaps you applied a theme and there was no dockbar code in the template or may be some changes through permissions?
Once you login using /c/portal/login with admin credentials, try accessing the control pane using it's url (for 6.1) http://localhost:8080/group/control_panel?doAsGroupId=10180&refererPlid=10183
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