This was originally filed upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363437 it is a bad bug, since it can cause the panel to crash at startup, rendering your desktop unusable. Fixed in upstream cvs
Fix is in gtk2-2.10.4-6.el5
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I tried testing the following steps got from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379863 which is one of duplicates of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363437 with gtk2-2.10.4-7.el5 on RHEL5-Client-20061201.0. 1. Open a link like this in epiphany: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkRecentManager.html#GtkRecentManager-struct 2. Press <Ctrl>u to see the source 3. In that moment the gnome panel crashes Test result: No gnome panel crash occurred. As it is difficult to reproduce all crashes filed in 363437 and itsduplicates, I can just verify the bug according to the above testing.
As there is no crash found in previous testing and other normal operations, resolve the bug now.