It seems like the crash of gnome-panel here and the hang of your menus are related.
Ever since the upgrade as of August 22nd the gnome-panel crashes reproducably leaving a message in the syslog even when selecting the properties menu of the gnome-panel: Aug 23 03:00:58 sofa kernel: gnome-panel[26736]: segfault at 18 ip 7f93249ce5c8 sp 7fff30a0e6c0 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[7f9324959000+14a000] A backtrace reveals that the crash in libc.so.6 is right after a call issued by libxml2: ... Attaching to process 27391 Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-panel...(no debugging symbols found)...done. ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7ff78865e770 (LWP 27391)] 0x00007ff7847675c8 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt full #0 0x00007ff7847675c8 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007ff784767a76 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007ff7843e2065 in xmlParseEntityDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 No symbol table info available. #3 0x00007ff7843e27e6 in xmlParseMarkupDecl () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 No symbol table info available. #4 0x00007ff7843e287e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00007ff7843e3626 in xmlParseChunk () from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 No symbol table info available. #6 0x00007ff77cfd1cd0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2 No symbol table info available. #7 0x00007ff77d203d7c in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so No symbol table info available. #8 0x00007ff78642fc99 in gdk_pixbuf_loader_write () from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #9 0x00007ff786c18530 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. When I rolled back my libxml2 by doing dpkg -i libxml2_2.6.32.dfsg-2_amd64.deb \ libxml2-utils_2.6.32.dfsg-2_amd64.deb the gnome-panel is working again so that I'm not sure about whether this is a bug in gnome-panel or libxml2. Nautilus is showing the same behavior like gnome-panel and is working again after the downgrade of libxml2. Best regards t++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]