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Description of problem:
This is a hard-to-reproduce bug. :/

Sometimes, after the first launch of the gnome-panel (before it has
had a chance to cache the icons for the menuitems), I can get the
panel to freeze and/or crash while loading icons. This is the first
time I've been able to get a backtrace out of it, but sadly I couldn't
copy and paste it so I've copied what seem to be the relevant parts of
the path here.

Basically, it looks like something is freezing in
gnome_desktop_item_find_icon. I don't know exactly what it is, but the
backtrace showed these functions were responsible:

gtk_main
g_main_loop_run
g_main_context_dispatch
g_main_context_dispatch
g_main_depth
g_child_watch_add
panel_make_menu_icon
gnome_desktop_item_find_icon

Might it have something to do with having a home directory mounted on NFS?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-panel-2.6.0-9

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On fresh launch of gnome-panel, hover over menu items in main menu
2. I'm not sure exactly how to reproduce. It's difficult. :/
3. Sometimes will result in a freeze; other times, will result in a crash.

Actual Results:  This time, it froze. Focus was stolen, hitting 'Esc'
on the keyboard did not work, and clicking outside of the menu area
also did not work.

Expected Results:  The panel should cache all of the icons before the
user even hovers over them, IMHO. Maybe even keep them cached in a
special spot before it launches so that the menus are instantaneous
and there is no first-launch lag.