I had the same problem in RH 9. I'll give you the solution that was offered
to me. It may not be the best, but it worked, sort of. It gave me a panel
without any of the modifications that I'd made to the old one.
I'm using "me" as the user. From a terminal window in which you have entered
"su
Hi,
I am having Red Hat 8.0 as my desktop. I added a
lock/logout Applet to the panel and then I tried to
remove it ..suddenly the gnome-panel crashes. After
that I cannot be able to bring the gnome-panel again
it is telling the message like
" Application "gnome-panel" has crashed due to a
fata