Bug#593387: gnome-panel: Fails to display top and bottom panels on a higher resolution second monitor

[Lee-Anne Weber]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.30.0-2
Severity: important


After a long overdue update last week (since Novemberish), the Gnome 
panels no longer appear when my laptop is connected to an external 
monitor and the resolution is higher than the native laptop display 
resolution. Gnome-panel is running but does not seem to be doing 
anything. Killing it has no effect. Occasionally it will show up for the 
first few minutes after the resolution is changed or turning off the 
laptop's display in Monitor Preferences, but it will then disappear.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.30.0-2      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.30.1-1    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.30.0-2      Common files for GNOME desktop app
ii  gnome-menus                2.30.0-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.30.0-2      common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.30.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.24.3-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-2      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                  1.8.10-4      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0           0.24-1        Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0               0.24-1        a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.24-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.86-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7               2.30.2-1      Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-13       2.30.2-1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8      2.30.2-1      GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.1-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.24.1-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17      2.30.0-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.30.0-1      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.20.1-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgweather1               2.30.0-2      GWeather shared library
ii  libical0                   0.44-3        iCalendar library implementation i
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.6-1     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.30.0-2      library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.28.1-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.96-2        PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.26.3-1      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                     2:1.1.1-1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libwnck22                  2.30.0-2      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.3.3-3     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.3.0-3     X11 RandR extension library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.5           freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  policykit-1-gnome          0.96-2        GNOME authentication agent for Pol
ii  python                     2.6.5-5       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-gconf               2.28.1-1      Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii  python-gnome2              2.28.1-1      Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.13.1-1   easy GNOME menu editing tool
ii  evolution-data-server         2.30.2-1   evolution database backend server
ii  gnome-applets                 2.30.0-1   Various applets for the GNOME pane
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.30.0-1   The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME 
ii  gvfs                          1.6.2-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser         2.30.2-2        Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  evolution                2.30.2-1        groupware suite with mail client a
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.30.2-1        The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2 2.30.1-1        GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                 2.30.1-1        file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 261-1           X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

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