Gnome panel is gone - GConf problem?

Thanks for your bug report. You could try "+Add Attachment" on the upper right hand side.

Here is my .gconf directory in .tar.gz format.

And also my .gconfd as archive.

Hope that helps. If you need more information let me know.

I experience the same error. The problem here is that gnome-panel fails to stop when the user logs out.
Perhaps a line was missed that kills it, or something, but that fact is that it keeps running even after the majority of the GNOME processes have stopped.

I tried killing gnome-panel, and when it started again, most of the applets were unresponsive, and a couple of them, namely the ACPI battery monitoring applet (this is on a laptop) crashed or didn't start.

I now have to reboot to check session changes or anything like that.
This could be considered a serious problem.

Thanks for your bug. I doubt it's due to gconf. Do you have a custom ~/.gnome2/session? Could you switch to a VT (using Ctrl-Alt-F1) from the gdm screen and do "ps ax | grep panel" before login in again?

I created the 2 panels as described above as user test. After logout and login the error appeared.

After that I killed the X server and switched to VT and did a ps ax | grep panel

see attachment

.gnome2 directory with the broken panels as gzip

output of ps ax | grep panel before logging in again

Do you have any user logged or any session started while doing the ps ax call?

There where no users logged in - only on VT when I did the ps.

Strange thing now is:

If I start Gnome now as my test user everything starts without any problems. The 2 panels are now in the correct order on the top of the screen.

I do not remember exactly if I killed the panel on VT when I did ps ax... But I don't think that this is the reason and I wonder why it works now!?

But that mustn't happen that there is a panel error the first time after putting 2 panels on the top and logging out and in again.

"after putting 2 panels on the top and logging out and in again."

what do you mean?

What I mean is:

1. Log in in GDM with a user for the first time
2. Create 2 panels on top of screen
3. Log out so that GDM appears again
4. Now log in your Gnome session again
5. The error message will appear

Does anybody else get that issue?

Bug 32802 seems to be sth. equally:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/32802

Even I am getting this problem today. I am on the latest Dapper. The panel works just fine for other users. The top panel with the menubar and applets seem to be hung as I don't see any of the applets and clicking on the menubar doesn't yield any results.
 $ ps ax | grep panel shows this --
 6094 ? Ssl 0:01 gnome-panel --sm-client-id 11c0a80164000114265696300000056860009 --screen 0
 6098 ? S 0:02 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/wnck-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Wncklet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=43
 6107 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=50

Looks like they are hung badly.
I am also attaching my ~/.gconfd

Attached

I am also attaching the backtrace of the hung gnome-panel.

Is this still a problem in Dapper or Edgy?

I only use one panel on top now. I added a second panel to test if it works now. I got no error when any more more when logging in.

Seems this problem is fixed.

But there is another problem with panel - if it hangs and I do a Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server many Gnome apps stay in background and won't go away until I kill them in a shell. I have had this problem in Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE with Gnome desktop. I think I will post another bug report about this problem.

Thanks for following up, closing the bug - yeah, please file a differnet bug for the the other issue - thanks.