Comment 26 for bug 426185

On 11/01/2009 07:05 PM, nikob wrote:
> After searching a bit here on launchpad, i found this bug. It happens that i have a similar problem.
> i upgraded to karmic today and the gnome-panel is just grey without any icon or label on it, and this after fresh startup and login!!!
> very surprised, i when to tty and restarted X. then everything was ok, the panel was reloading correctly... until i had to reboot the machine and the same problem occurred again after the next bootup.
> after reading your posts (and configuring ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x more easily), i tried to killall gnome-panel only, and that was it! all the icons appeared on the newly created panel, except my 3 weather-applet !!! here is the trick. i understand that the blocking applet is the weather one, i remove them 3, and after a full reboot, the panel is loading correctly, finally.
>
> So John Vivirito, can you try to remove your 2 weather applets ?
>
> then i have a crash of indicator-applet, i have to search the
> appropriate bug report for it, but in fact i think i will remove this
> applet, since empathy is so buggy that i don't even use it. I also have
> some random metacity crashes... but i can't do without this one....hum
> hum.
>
>
> ps to John Vivirito: i understand that you want to rise the priority of this bug, a non functional panel is not acceptable! the release of karmic will suffer of this problem, for sure. but your posts lack information or investigations. Are you using your tty+killall since 2 weeks and accepted the situation as it is?
> ps to Sebastien B. : you refused to see that an important bug is hidden in this report, but in fact, the issue is severe. How come a stupid weather applet can block (maybe deadlock) gnome-panel, and prevent the render of the whole panel? i would be very afraid to release a desktop with such a buggy panel. i will now tell all my friends/relatives NOT to upgrade to karmic. i don't want them to have to call me and use the tty when they don't see the application menu!
>
> good luck to everybody.
>
> may the free and open source software win.
>
It worked today i dont recall if it failed over weekend (fresh
install of Karmic)

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    John Vivirito

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