Description of Problem:

While attempting a reconfiguration 'gnome-panel' crashes with the following
backtrace:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-panel'

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1024
(LWP 20398)]

0x4209d579 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#0  0x4209d579 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x42115168 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2  0x40837b43 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3  0x401a95e5 in libgnomeui_module_info_get () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#4  0x4083939e in __pthread_sighandler () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#5  <signal handler called>
#6  0x4206e229 in free () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#7  0x4086ac04 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8  0x40d1b617 in update_timeformat () from /usr/lib/libgen_util_applet-2.so
#9  0x40d1bb6f in refresh_clock_timeout ()
   from /usr/lib/libgen_util_applet-2.so
#10 0x4066e1af in notify_listeners_callback () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#11 0x406587e7 in notify_listener_list () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#12 0x4065896d in ltable_notify () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#13 0x4066e335 in notify_one_entry () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#14 0x4066e404 in gconf_client_flush_notifies () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#15 0x4066dff8 in notify_idle_callback () from /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
#16 0x40867db3 in g_idle_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 0x40865085 in g_main_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 0x408660e8 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0x408663fd in g_main_context_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0x40866b6f in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#21 0x403952ef in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#22 0x0805b881 in main ()
#23 0x420164a4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 20398)):
#0  0x4209d579 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x42115168 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x40837b4[root@smok root]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/gnome-panel
gnome-panel-1.5.22-3