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

[Scott Anderson]

Marc and Coin:

I found another "fix" for this bug.  I don't like using
nautilus, so I had saved my session with nautilus removed.

Today I ran nautilus from a command prompt, and it fixed the
background problem which was staying gray (another bug,
Bug#293636: gnome: desktop background resets to gray).  I saved
my session and logged out.  When I logged back in, nautilus
loaded and my panel appeared right away.  I would assume this
means there is a sensitivity in gnome-panel that relies on
nautilus already running.  I can do more testing if you would
like.  Let me know how I can help.

Norm

--- Marc Dequènes <Duck@DuckCorp.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Marc Dequènes (Duck)
> 


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