FAM & and unmounting USB disks

Hello, I'm having some trouble with FAM, the File Alteration Monitor. When I try to unmount a usb pen drive, I get the error message that the device is in use, and lsof tells me that FAM has the mount point open. Does anyone have a solution for this? I can just run sync and unplug the drive with n

Gnome panel doesn't respond

Hello, I have Gnome 2.8 installed on Debain testing, which was working fine until recently. However, now gnome-panel is broken - it just doesn't respond. It can be restarted, and then it notices changes to themes etc., but when running it doesn't do anything. I've tried adding a new user to the sy