Well this is certainly frustrating. We have upgraded my work desktop to the new hyper-threaded IBM ThinkCentre 8171 with 1 GB Ram. Since we are a Windoze shop, I convinced my management that I could run WinXP on Fedora Core4 using the latest VMWare Workstation. I am impressed that it comes up in SMP mode and generally runs very well. However, there is this annoying problem with the Gnome Panel. At times almost all my launchers and menus are gone, and just the window selector is left, other times I cannot even use the Gnome panel when it ges like this and then it just seems to hang sometimes. I'm mentioning the Gnome Panel as a potential problem but it could be almost anything else! I've tail'ed /var/log/messages and see nothing unusual. I am running FC4 on several different machines without ever seeing this happen. I can be switching from one window to another and then the Gnome Panel won't have all my icons, etc... BTW --- I have tried stopping and restarting Gnome-panel and it does not reappear... Thanks for any insights... -- Ed Gurski <ed@xxxxxxxxxx>
