Bug#323017: a gnome-panel crash leads to badness when it restarts

[Jason Dorje Short]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.10.2-1
Severity: normal


Lately my gnome-panel has been crashing a lot.  I *think* this has happened because I've updated gnome through debian-unstable and the on-disk binaries differ from what's actually running.  This is probably it's own bug, but it's a pretty common kind of error.

However after the crash it automatically restarts itself (with a prompt).  But after the restart I get an error message saying "I've detected a panel already running, and will now exit."  When I close this message dialog, about 2 seconds pass, the CPU does some thinking, and then it just pops back up again; ad infinitum.  Running 'killall gnome-panel' at this point doesn't help; not until I restart the system are things fixed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about              2.10.2-1        The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center     1:2.10.1-6      utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data       2.10.2-1        Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus              2.10.2-1        an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data         2.10.2-1        common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.10.0-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libecal1.2-2             1.2.3-2         Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-4      1.2.3-2         Utily library for evolution data s
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.10.2-1        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu0           2.10.2-1        an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.9-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-3      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0       2.10.2-1        library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libwnck16                2.10.3-1        Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  xlibs                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-5  X Window System client libraries m

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  gnome-applets                 2.10.1-5   Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-session                 2.10.0-5   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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