From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: I am using RH7.3 on a Compaq Presario 1690 Notebook (128mb Ram, AMD-K6) and Gnome. On v. random occasions the Panel crashes is not recoverable by either logging out, or restarting X (ctrl-alt-backspc). I have found that the only way to restore the panel is to completely delete the ~/.gnome/panel file and the ~/.gnome/panel.d directory, and to then rebuild the applets. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome! 2. 3. Actual Results: After login, core apps loaded panel sub-system not loaded... Expected Results: Expect to see panel sub-system icon and then display of panel on desktop Additional info:
Does the panel open a crash dialog? Can you attach the backtrace from there?
Unfortunately there is no crash dialog, however I have now noticed that this happens when open a terminal session with ctrl-alt-1 (for eg) and then init 3, without logging out of the X session. Being no crash dialog, I do not get a backtrace.
You are in X via startx not gdm then, right, or init 3 would log you out. What is in ~/.xsession-errors right after losing the panel, and then after logging in post-losing the panel?
panel in Rawhide is totally different code, so bug is unlikely to apply.