This bug happened to me twice, on two separate installs.
I did an aptitude upgrade today by doing these commands as root:
aptitude update
aptitude -f -with-recommends dist-upgrade
After downloading and installing about 70 packages, upon reboot and starting Gnome, I get 3 question dialog boxes:
Question
The "Show Desktop" applet appears to have died unexpectedly. Do you want to reload this applet? (If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by right clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu.) OK / Cancel
Question
The "Window List" applet appears to have died unexpectedly. Do you want to reload this applet? (If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by right clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu.) OK / Cancel
Question
The "Workspace Switcher" applet appears to have died unexpectedly. Do you want to reload this applet? (If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by right clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu.) OK / Cancel
After this happened the first time, I nuked the hard disk and started over with a sarge installation from CD, then did the aptitude upgrade as above and the same thing happened again.
Bill
