Bug#461106: gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes unresponsive

[Sergio Llorente]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.20.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes
unresponsive after having worked for a random number of hours.

The problem started when the testing Debian distribution was upgraded one
week ago.

I do not know how to reproduce the problem. The program "gnome-panel" begin
to eat almost all CPU suddenly, after having worked for many hours. After
killing "gnome-panel", other process seem to work perfectly.

I have three panels on the Desktop, with many launchers and the following
applets on them:

GNOME_WindowListApple
GNOME_WindowMenuApplet
GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet
GNOME_ClockApplet
GNOME_MultiLoadApplet
GNOME_NotificationAreaApple
SensorsApplet
GNOME_GWeatherApplet
GNOME_StickyNotesApple
GNOME_NetspeedApplet
GNOME_NetstatusApplet


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                 2.20.2-1     The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.20.1-2   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data          2.20.2-1     Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                 2.20.2-1     an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data            2.20.2-2     common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.2-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.20.0-1     The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.7-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.4.10-1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7                1.12.2-1     Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9         1.12.2-1     Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8       1.12.2-1     GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.1-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.2-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.3-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.20.2-1     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2              2.20.2-1     an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.20.1-1   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.1-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0          2.20.2-2     library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22                   2.20.2-1     Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                     1:1.0.3-2    X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                    0.3          freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                     0.11.3-1    easy GNOME menu editing tool
pn  evolution-data-server        <none>      (no description available)
ii  gnome-applets                2.20.0-1+b1 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme             2.20.0-1    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                2.20.2-1    The GNOME 2 Session Manager

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