Solved for me now... I ran into some problems with another application and noticed that I had some directories in my home folder that belonged to "root". After I had corrected this, my panel applets also started working again. Perhaps this works for you too.
Here's the command to (re)set all the files and directories in your home folder back to you as owner and group: sudo chown -R ${USERNAME}.${USERNAME} /home/$USERNAME/* Enter this command as a normal user in a terminal. -- Gnome Applets fail on boot. If I boot my PC the Gnome Applets fail to load. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426072 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs