Bug#352461: gnome-panel: icons do not work and applets disappeared after upgrade

[Brice Goglin]

Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 08:08:30PM -0500, Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> Package: gnome-panel
>> Version: 2.12.2-3
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After upgrading my testing tonight, my gnome panel does not work at all
>> anymore.  Icons/drawers are still shown but they do not react to any clicks.
>> No applet is shown anymore. Some (wnck-applet and xscreensaver) appears to be
>> running anyway. The others are not not running according to ps (workspace
>> switcher, sticky notes, window list, battery, network, weather, cpufreq,
>> multiload and volume).
>>
>> Fortunately, I managed to fix this by downgrading with snapshot.debian.net to
>> gnome-panel 2.10.2-1 (only needed to downgrade/install gnome-panel-data,
>> libecal1.2, libgnome-menu0 and libwnck16).
>>     
>
> As i can't reproduce this, so i will need to ask you to upgrade again. Is one
> of the applets or the panel using a lot of cpu when this happens maybe ? If not
> could you strace or ltrace the panel and mail a small piece of the output
> (Especially if it loops at some point)
>
>   Sjoerd
>   
Hi,

Is there any news about this bug?

I just noticed a couple things:
* if I remove "ssh-add < /dev/null" from my .xsession, the problem seems 
to disappear.
* if I run "ssh-add < /dev/null" from a terminal way after gnome 
startup, it takes about 1 second for its window to be drawn, while 
wnck-applet immediately goes to 100% CPU (and needs to be killed to come 
back to normal behavior. It is totally reproductible here).

So there might be something related to ssh-add, any idea ?
ii  openssh-client        4.2p1-7               Secure shell client, an 
rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement

Thanks,
Brice