>  > Are these problems before or after a reboot ?
 >
 > After logging in once. If you log out and then log back in the
 > gnome panel is gone or non operational. Rebooting does not help.
 > Cleaning /tmp seems to help, but I am still experimenting with 
 > workarounds until the developers release a fixed version of whatever
 > is broken.

The thing is more random that I thought, the gnome-panel seems to
be crashing randomly, and the only workaround I found is to kill
it (perhaps several times) and restart it manually if it dies.
I wrote a script that my users can run to do that if they need to.

I have seen this happening only on 32-bit machines, the 64-bit
machines seem unaffected.

Miguel A. Lerma

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