Bug#298452: gnome-panel: Panel empty on startup

[Marc Dequènes (Duck)]

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severity 298452 important
thanks



Coin,

Norman L Guy <ee_in_co@yahoo.com> writes:

> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

This version of the panel is in the archive and in testing since a while
without such major problem. As it is usuable for almost everybody, it
cannot be a RC bug.

> I just updated on Friday before leaving work for the weekend.  Logged in
> this morning and my panel appeared on the bottom of the screen as
> before, but the entire panel was empty.  Right-clicking on the panel
> popped up the "Add panel" ... menu, so gnome-panel was running.  The
> applets processes also showed up in a process list.
>
> After launching a terminal, I killed gnome-panel with
> % killall gnome-panel
>
> The panel immediately relaunched with all my settings back to normal.
>
> This is repeatable for every log in.

Would like other users give as much details in their
reports... dreaming...


Never heard of such problems before. I really don't know neither what
could lead to this result, nor which extra tests to try. I'm gonna ask
for help to more experimented GNOME Team members, hold on.

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Marc Dequ=C3=A8nes (Duck)

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