Re: Gnome bottom panel keeps dying

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 03:56:18PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
> > On F12, recently the bottom panel (on a vanilla Gnome installation) has
> > decided to disappear occasionally.
> 
> I've reported a similar problem a few times with my F12 64-Bit desktop
> installation and my 32Bit laptop installation. I think this might have
> started w/ F11.
> 
> To remedy this, in both cases, I open a terminal window, then
> > ps waux | grep gnome-panel
> > kill <gnome-panel process-id>
> 
> It's a bit heavyhanded, but short of doing a reboot until I get the panel,
> this seems to restore my bottom panels; however, the weather applets won't
> work w/o a complete logout/reboot.

I've also found (since my posting) that running the "configuration
editor" (gconf-editor) and changing the panel hiding setting for the
bottom panel causes it to reappear.

> 
> > the occasions have become more and more frequent til I end up rebooting
> > at least once to get a bottom panel.
> >
> > in fact, today, I don't get one (visibly) at all. Clues?
> >
> > And today, the ABRT flashing red light appears on the top panel, but when
> > I hover the mouse over it it says "Abrt service is not running." I'm
> > gonna guess that the dying panel has triggered abrt, but as to why it
> > says it isn't running, I have no idea. It IS enabled in the services
> > app.
> >
> > TIA!
> >
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