My GNOME panels have disappeared (I have a second one I created long ago). I am running FC3. This has happened before, fairly recently. On that occasion, I tried logging off (by restarting the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and logging on again. When this happened, I got about 5 dialog boxes all saying the same thing - something like "I have detected another panel running - exiting". So I re-booted the machine (incidentally, when I do this now with the reboot command, the machine shuts down as far as "Restarting the system" but then does not restart - I have to hit the reset switch in my system unit) and all was well. This time, after trying to restart the X server, with the same results as before, I tried telinit 3 followed by telinit 5 to try to avoid a re-boot - this time I did not get the dialog boxes, but still no panel. Then I re-booted, but this time I still do not have any GNOME panels. Help.! -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire
