After searching a bit here on launchpad, i found this bug. It happens that i 
have a similar problem.
i upgraded to karmic today and the gnome-panel is just grey without any icon or 
label on it, and this after fresh startup and login!!!
very surprised, i when to tty and restarted X. then everything was ok, the 
panel was reloading correctly... until i had to reboot the machine and the same 
problem occurred again after the next bootup.
after reading your posts (and configuring ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x more 
easily), i tried to killall gnome-panel only, and that was it! all the icons 
appeared on the newly created panel, except my 3 weather-applet  !!! here is 
the trick. i understand that the blocking applet is the weather one, i remove 
them 3, and after a full reboot, the panel is loading correctly, finally.

So John Vivirito, can you try to remove your 2 weather applets ?

then i have a crash of indicator-applet, i have to search the
appropriate bug report for it, but in fact i think i will remove this
applet, since empathy is so buggy that i don't even use it. I also have
some random metacity crashes... but i can't do without this one....hum
hum.


ps to John Vivirito: i understand that you want to rise the priority of this 
bug, a non functional panel is not acceptable! the release of karmic will 
suffer of this problem, for sure. but your posts lack information or 
investigations. Are you using your tty+killall since 2 weeks and accepted the 
situation as it is?
ps to Sebastien B. : you refused to see that an important bug is hidden in this 
report, but in fact, the issue is severe. How come a stupid weather applet can 
block (maybe deadlock) gnome-panel, and prevent the render of the whole panel? 
i would be very afraid to release a desktop with such a buggy panel. i will now 
tell all my friends/relatives NOT to upgrade to karmic. i don't want them to 
have to call me and use the tty when they don't see the application menu!

good luck to everybody.

may the free and open source software win.

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Gnome-panel fails to load various applets
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